Booting freebsd qemu image (ubuntu host)

qemu-kvm freebsd

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Install QEMU (qemu-kvm)

$ sudo apt install qemu-kvm

Download FreeBSD qcow2 image (FreeBSD-10.4-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2.xz)

Src: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/VM-IMAGES/

$ wget ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/VM-IMAGES/10.4-RELEASE/amd64/Latest/FreeBSD-10.4-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2.xz
$ xz -d FreeBSD-10.4-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2.xz

Booting

$ qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm FreeBSD-10.4-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2

Login and create user, post-install setup

On first boot, login with account root (don’t need password) then create new user there.

Note: wheel group can execute commands with superuser privileges. If you want to create a normal (unprivileged) user, you may leave this blank.

$ adduser

Username: XXX
Full name: YYY
Uid (Leave empty for default):
Login group [XXX]:
Login group is XXX. Invite XXX into other groups? []: wheel
Login class [default]:
Shell (sh csh tcsh nologin) [sh]:
Home directory [/home/XXX]:
Home directory permissions (Leave empty for default):
Use password-based authentication? [yes]:
Use an empty password? (yes/no) [no]:
Use a random password? (yes/no) [no]:
Enter password: password
Enter password again: password
Lock out the account after creation? [no]:

View directory layout

$ man hier

Install package

Note: pkg is package management tool for FreeBSD but it is not installed by default. simply type pkg on terminal and install it. also sudo need to be installed by hand.

$ pkg
$ pkg install sudo

Add user to sudoers

$ visudo
# under User privilege specification add bellow line (replace XXX by username want to be added)
XXX ALL=(ALL) ALL

Login as new user (XXX)

# press ctrl-D to exit current logged in session and back to login terminal
# enter username and password
login: XXX
Password: <your_password>

Escape from QEMU

Ref: How do I get my mouse back from qemu/kvm?

Ctrl + Left_Alt

SSH from host to qemu

$ qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2 -redir tcp:XXXX::22
# if above is not work
$ qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2 -net user,hostfwd=tcp::XXXX-:22 -net nic
  • Enable ssh on freebsd
$ service sshd status
# If the service is not running, add the following line to /etc/rc.conf
# sshd_enable="YES"
$ sudo service sshd start
  • Connect from host to qemu
$ ssh <vmuser>@localhost -p <XXXX>