On 06/05/2021 16:17, Alan Somers wrote:
It's easy to build a UFS-based VM image just by setting WITH_VMIMAGES in release.conf and running release.sh. But what about ZFS-based images? What's the easiest way to build a ZFS-based VM image, using a pool layout similar to what the interactive installer uses?
The only way that I've deployed FreeBSD VMs in Azure has been to run the installer in Hyper-V locally and then upload it as a template.
You need to be *really* careful with this mode though, because ZFS gets really confused if two pools or two VDEVs have the same UUIDs. This means that you can't just attach one VM's disk to another for recovery (I also have a UFS image that I use for recovery). It would be great if it were possible to set a flag somewhere telling the storage subsystem to regenerate the UUIDs of everything (including GPT partitions) on first boot.
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