FreeBSD 12.0 released

December 11, 2018 ~ hucktech ~ Leave a comment

#FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE Now Available.https://t.co/MsEdvPtNzF

— FreeBSD RE Team (@FreeBSD_RE) December 11, 2018

Congratulations to the RE team and all the contributors for the release of 12.0! We’d also like to thank our community of donors whose support helps us fund a full-time staff member dedicated to leading the Release Engineering team and overseeing the release process. https://t.co/VFRTIEvIqf

— FreeBSD Foundation (@freebsdfndation) December 11, 2018

Highlights — from my perspective — include:

* The bsdinstall(8) utility now supports UEFI+GELI as an installation option.
* The bhyve(8) utility is now able to be run withing a jail(8).

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2018-December/001856.html

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/relnotes.html

PS: There’re a few days left to purchase a FreeBSD 25th Anniversary t-shirt:

Just up! You can now get your own #FreeBSD 25th Anniversary t-shirt while supporting the Project and Foundation. The fundraiser will run through Dec 19. Tell your friends and order your shirt today! https://t.co/EUEmpmdNIO pic.twitter.com/Zs67s0QFVP

— FreeBSD Foundation (@freebsdfndation) November 28, 2018

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FreeBSD bhyve UEFI support improved

February 14, 2018 ~ hucktech ~ Leave a comment

Nice. My addition to https://t.co/tldtTAuYne to support UEFI with #bhyve has been MFC'd to #FreeBSD 11-STABLE: https://t.co/LF6dGDqXCC

— Shawn Webb (@lattera) February 12, 2018

MFC: r316746 Add UEFI support to vmrun.sh

Adds:
-E: Use UEFI mode
-f: path to UEFI firmware image (default: path to uefi-edk2-bhyve package)
-F: UEFI framebuffer size (default: w=1024,h=768)
-L: IP to listen for VNC connections on (default: 127.0.0.1)
-P: Port to listen for VNC connections on (default: 5900)
-T: Enable tablnet device (for VNC)
-v: Wait for VNC client before booting VM

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=329178

FreeBSD Bhyve script for UEFI

December 6, 2015 ~ hucktech ~ Leave a comment

Pr1ntf has a new Github project related to UEFI, FreeBSD and bhyve:

“Set of scripts to create an unattended Windows ISO, and boot it using bhyve via UEFI firmware.”

More information:

https://github.com/pr1ntf/YetAnotherBhyveScript
https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve
http://www.bhyve.org/