FreeBSD images

The FreeBSD images are used to provision Triton DataCenter instances with FreeBSD pre-installed. For more information about FreeBSD, see freebsd.org and the FreeBSD Handbook.

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• FreeBSD 12.x
  • 20190424
• FreeBSD 11.x
  • 20180213
  • 20170526
  • 20170403
  • 20170330
  • 20161221
  • 20161205
• FreeBSD 10.x
  • 20170403
  • 20160415
  • 20150818
  • 20150724
  • 20150325
  • 20150325
  • 20150325

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FreeBSD 11.x and 12

This is 64bit FreeBSD 11.x/12 image with a selection of packages preinstalled and guest tools to enable support for Triton and SmartOS. The image contains two volumes:

• The root volume is mounted at /.
• The data volume is pre-formatted and mounted at /data. The size of the data volume is specified when you provision the machine.

FreeBSD 12.0: 20190424

Name	freebsd-12
Description	FreeBSD 12.0 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	c6d1d6d0-6691-11e9-9385-1f6fb989898c
Builder	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/freebsd-kvm-image-builder
Tests	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/freebsd-image-tests

Packages installed in this image

• bash
• curl
• node
• npm
• wget

What's New in This Release

• Release updated to 12.0

FreeBSD 11.1: 20180213

Name	freebsd-11
Description	FreeBSD 11.1 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	37603d78-10c7-11e8-9c60-1f1a4f40d849
Builder	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/freebsd-kvm-image-builder
Tests	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/freebsd-image-tests

Packages installed in this image

• bash
• curl
• node
• npm
• vim-lite
• wget

What's New in This Release

• Release updated to 11.1

FreeBSD 11.0: 20170526

Name	freebsd-11
Description	FreeBSD 11.0 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	d13bd654-41bb-11e7-a64c-b76d805afedf
Builder	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/freebsd-kvm-image-builder
Tests	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/freebsd-image-tests

Packages installed in this image

• bash
• curl
• node
• npm
• vim-lite
• wget

What's New in This Release

• Change the rcorder(8) of rc.d/triton to start before SERVERS. See https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/freebsd-kvm-image-builder/pull/3

FreeBSD 11.0: 20170403

Name	freebsd-11
Description	FreeBSD 11.0 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	d6542cce-1815-11e7-92d7-cf2bd01fcadc
GitHub	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/freebsd-kvm-image-builder

Packages installed in this image

• bash
• curl
• node
• npm
• vim-lite
• wget

What's New in This Release

• Reduced image size
• Install vim-lite instead of vim
• Do not assign the default sound unit automatically (hw.snd.default_auto=0)

FreeBSD 11.0: 20170330

Name	freebsd-11
Description	FreeBSD 11.0 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	66476c9c-14f1-11e7-bf19-57eaecee1697
GitHub	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/freebsd-kvm-image-builder

Packages installed in this image

• bash
• curl
• node
• npm
• vim
• wget

What's New in This Release

• Added -v flag to /boot.config for more verbose output
• Added BEFORE: LOGIN to triton package to ensure it runs before login
• Added the following settings to /boot/loader.conf
  • verbose_loading="YES"
  • hw.usb.disable_enumeration=1
  • hw.usb.no_boot_wait=1
  • hw.usb.no_shutdown_wait=1
• Removed dumpdev="AUTO" from /etc/rc.conf
• Note: The hw.usb.disable_enumeration=1 setting was added to get around a bug that interupted the boot process when setting up USB devices. This would lead to errors like usb_alloc_device: set address 2 failed (USB_ERR_TIMEOUT, ignored) and would prevent the guest tools from running to completion.

FreeBSD 11.0: 20161221

Name	freebsd-11
Description	FreeBSD 11.0 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	d36810a2-c725-11e6-9f0e-77ae5aad76d8
GitHub	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/freebsd-kvm-image-builder

Packages installed in this image

• bash
• curl
• node
• npm
• vim
• wget

What's New in This Release

• Updated guest tools:
  • Better logging of guest tools to /var/log/triton.log
  • Added user-script log (/var/log/mdata-user-script.log)
  • Create main triton service script and put logging there
  • Improvements to rd.d triton script

FreeBSD 11.0: 20161205

Name	freebsd-11
Description	FreeBSD 11.0 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	c545c3f0-bb06-11e6-8b4a-972796814095
GitHub	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/freebsd-kvm-image-builder

Packages installed in this image

• bash
• curl
• node
• npm
• vim
• wget

What's New in This Release

• First FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE
• Updated guestools and build process (see: https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/freebsd-kvm-image-builder)
  • Guesttools are now incorporated into the freebsd-kvm-image-builder build repo
  • The guesttools service is now called 'triton' (triton_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf)
  • The guesttools distribution file named to triton.txz instead joyent.txz
  • Guesttols now also log to /var/log/triton.log with more verbose output
  • lib_smartdc_scripts.cfg file renamed to common.lib
  • Better approach to user-script, user-data and operator script:
  • The user-data, user-script and operator-script renamed to mdata-user-data, mdata-user-script and mdata-operator-script
  • All scripts are now saved to /var/tmp/ instead of /var/db/ (mdata-user-data) or /tmp/ (operator-script)
  • user-script is run after every boot
  • Fix man pages for mdata-* tools

FreeBSD 10.x

This is 64bit FreeBSD 10.x image with a selection of packages preinstalled and guest tools me-freebsd to enable support for Triton and SmartOS. The image contains two volumes:

• The root volume is mounted at /.
• The data volume is pre-formatted and mounted at /data. The size of the data volume is specified when you provision the machine.

FreeBSD 10.3: 20170403

Name	freebsd-10
Description	FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	2c7a56de-1819-11e7-8a7b-03bf1f0fb39d
GitHub	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/mi-freebsd-10

Packages installed in this image

• bash
• curl
• node
• npm
• vim-lite
• wget

What's New in This Release

• Reduced image size
• Remove kernel debugging symbols to reduce image size (/boot/kernel/*.symbols)
• Install vim-lite instead of vim
• Do not assign the default sound unit automatically (hw.snd.default_auto=0)
• Added -v flag to /boot.config for more verbose output
• Added the following settings to /boot/loader.conf
  • verbose_loading="YES"
  • hw.usb.disable_enumeration=1
  • hw.usb.no_boot_wait=1
  • hw.usb.no_shutdown_wait=1
• Removed dumpdev="AUTO" from /etc/rc.conf

FreeBSD 10.3: 20160415

Name	freebsd-10
Description	FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	39a87f12-034c-11e6-84f5-4316cc1fcaa0
GitHub	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/mi-freebsd-10

Packages installed in this image

• bash
• curl
• node
• npm
• vim
• wget

What's New in This Release

• FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE

FreeBSD 10.2: 20150818

Name	freebsd-10
Description	FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	3b811030-4554-11e5-a198-0733b8a63f6c
GitHub	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/mi-freebsd-10

Packages installed in this image

• bash
• curl
• node
• npm
• vim-lite
• wget

What's New in This Release

• FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE
• Now installing full version of vim

FreeBSD 10.1: 20150724

Name	freebsd-10
Description	FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	7459f182-31af-11e5-b23a-eb0fd8799c77
GitHub	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/mi-freebsd-10

Packages installed in this image

• bash
• curl
• node
• npm
• vim-lite
• wget

What's New in This Release

• Updated to FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p15

FreeBSD 10.1: 20150325

Name	freebsd-10
Description	FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	8777db28-d302-11e4-8cf2-8793bd757e0f
GitHub	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/mi-freebsd-10

Packages installed in this image

• bash
• curl
• node
• npm
• vim-lite
• wget

What's New in This Release

• FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p6
• Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.1l-freebsd

FreeBSD 10.1: 20141202

Name	freebsd-10
Description	FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	d20b8738-7a2a-11e4-bea0-83cb697e6c7c
GitHub	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/mi-freebsd-10

Packages installed in this image

• bash
• curl
• node
• npm
• vim-lite
• wget

What's New in This Release

• Removed unused ntp package. The image uses the base ntp service not the packaged version.

FreeBSD 10.1: 20141115

Name	freebsd-10
Description	FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE 64-bit image with just essential packages installed. Ideal for users who are comfortable with setting up their own environment and tools.
UUID	176db8f4-6c6c-11e4-90b1-035076b608cc
GitHub	https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/mi-freebsd-10

Packages installed in this image

• bash
• curl
• node
• npm
• vim-lite
• wget

What's New in This Release

• First release!
• FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0 r274401
• Enabled serial and internal consoles ("-Dh" set in /boot.config and getty listening on cuau0 in /etc/ttys). This enables support for the vmadm console <UUID> command in Triton DataCenter and SmartOS
• Autoboot delay set to 5 seconds (see /boot/loader.conf)
• Time Zone set to UTC (see /etc/localtime)
• Preinstalled packages (see below): bash curl node npm ntp vim-lite wget
• Root login enabled via ssh only with key-based authentication (see /etc/ssh/sshd_config)
• root / and /data are formatted as ufs
• /etc/rc.conf has the following services enabled:
  • fsck_y_enable="YES"
  • dumpdev="AUTO"
  • smartdc_enable="YES"
  • sshd_enable="YES"
  • ntpd_enable="YES"
  • ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"
  • "hostname=" and "ifconfig_" entries(e.g., ifconfig_vtnet0="DHCP" ) dynamically created at boot (see me-freebsd updates below)
• Updated me-freebsd based on many changes and fixes from the Linux KVM guest tools:
  • Updated mdata-client tools installed in /usr/sbin (mdata-get, mdata-put, mdata-delete, and mdata-list)
  • Interfaces dynamically configured at boot via /lib/smartdc/add-network-interface
  • Firstboot script (/lib/smartdc/firstboot) for scripts that should only be run at provision
  • /lib/smartdc/format-secondary-disk is now run via firstboot
  • New /lib/smartdc/get-user-data script. Allows you to specify user-data meta data which which can be used with user-script
  • Added /lib/smartdc/run-operator-script which is used for Image Management (custom image creation via IMAGE api/cloud API)
  • Updated /lib/smartdc/run-user-script
  • Added /lib/smartdc/set-hostname which sets a hostname value in /etc/rc.conf if none exists. By default the hostname is set to the UUID of the Virtual Machine
  • Updated /lib/smartdc/set-root-authorized-keys (style changes)
  • Added /lib/smartdc/set-rootpassword which is run at firstboot. This script sets the password for the root user. The password is available via meta-data (mdata-get root_pw)