New FreeBSD development branch installation ISOs and virtual machine
disk images have been uploaded to the FreeBSD Project mirrors.
As with any development branch, the installation snapshots are not
intended for use on production systems. We do, however, encourage
testing on non-production systems as much as possible.
Please also consider installing the sysutils/panicmail port, which can
help in providing FreeBSD developers the necessary information regarding
system crashes.
Checksums for the installation ISOs and the VM disk images follow at
the end of this email.
=== Installation ISOs ===
Installation images are available for:
o 14.0-ALPHA1 amd64 GENERIC
o 14.0-ALPHA1 i386 GENERIC
o 14.0-ALPHA1 powerpc GENERIC
o 14.0-ALPHA1 powerpc64 GENERIC64
o 14.0-ALPHA1 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE
o 14.0-ALPHA1 armv6 RPI-B
o 14.0-ALPHA1 armv7 GENERICSD
o 14.0-ALPHA1 aarch64 GENERIC
o 14.0-ALPHA1 aarch64 RPI
o 14.0-ALPHA1 aarch64 PINE64
o 14.0-ALPHA1 aarch64 PINE64-LTS
o 14.0-ALPHA1 aarch64 PINEBOOK
o 14.0-ALPHA1 aarch64 ROCK64
o 14.0-ALPHA1 aarch64 ROCKPRO64
o 14.0-ALPHA1 riscv64 GENERIC
o 14.0-ALPHA1 riscv64 GENERICSD
Note regarding arm/armv{6,7} images: For convenience for those without
console access to the system, a freebsd user with a password of
freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access. Additionally,
the root user password is set to root, which it is strongly
recommended to change the password for both users after gaining
access to the system.
Snapshots may be downloaded from the corresponding architecture
directory from:
https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/
Please be patient if your local mirror has not yet caught up with the
changes.
Problems, bug reports, or regression reports should be reported through
the Bugzilla PR system or the appropriate mailing list such as -current@
or -stable@ .
=== Virtual Machine Disk Images ===
VM disk images are available for the following architectures:
o 14.0-ALPHA1 amd64
o 14.0-ALPHA1 i386
o 14.0-ALPHA1 aarch64
o 14.0-ALPHA1 riscv64
o 14.0-ALPHA1 amd64 BASIC-CI
Disk images may be downloaded from the following URL (or any of the
FreeBSD Project mirrors):
https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/
Images are available in the following disk image formats:
~ RAW
~ QCOW2 (qemu)
~ VMDK (qemu, VirtualBox, VMWare)
~ VHD (qemu, xen)
The partition layout for UFS is:
~ 512k - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label)
~ 1GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT label)
~ 24GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label)
Note regarding arm64/aarch64 virtual machine images: a modified QEMU EFI
loader file is needed for qemu-system-aarch64 to be able to boot the
virtual machine images. This is provided by the emulators/qemu port.
To boot the VM image, run:
% qemu-system-aarch64 -m 4096M -cpu cortex-a57 -M virt
-bios /usr/local/share/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd
-serial telnet::,server -nographic
-drive if=none,file=VMDISK,id=hd0
-device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0
-device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0
-netdev user,id=net0
Be sure to replace "VMDISK" with the path to the virtual machine image.
BASIC-CI images can be found at:
https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/CI-IMAGES/
=== Amazon EC2 AMI Images ===
FreeBSD/amd64 UFS EC2 AMIs are available in the following regions:
ap-south-2 region: ami-0ee95230becf80778
ap-south-1 region: ami-03ad9777ff8bc0b6e
eu-south-1 region: ami-0fdfdb9f7c3a58c46
eu-south-2 region: ami-0ebed85d055e70b39
me-central-1 region: ami-02c67cb3a99d57d57
ca-central-1 region: ami-0d0bbdaefd0c0e181
eu-central-1 region: ami-0a80119c6edde9265
eu-central-2 region: ami-0a12f1c8e051dfae9
us-west-1 region: ami-0ea4f8fce960ef2c4
us-west-2 region: ami-09f3a6925f77e203e
af-south-1 region: ami-0ef9719a1228e32a5
eu-north-1 region: ami-02e6c8bc0ce909cbe
eu-west-3 region: ami-0aa3da21b9907069a
eu-west-2 region: ami-092c172d577027092
eu-west-1 region: ami-04cd2017e63b5ebda
ap-northeast-3 region: ami-077b46cc5d1c68523
ap-northeast-2 region: ami-00aafa3de31692805
me-south-1 region: ami-011ee7fb4001bf69f
ap-northeast-1 region: ami-08ff003b6ff73de93
sa-east-1 region: ami-052f0128aed100b4a
ap-east-1 region: ami-05bcf396a33918e60
ap-southeast-1 region: ami-0b56d17b45366f1bf
ap-southeast-2 region: ami-01b1c6fd1bb35074d
ap-southeast-3 region: ami-017073fdb4ae76333
us-east-1 region: ami-029e7b689f77cce2c
us-east-2 region: ami-0047bb65a2d73065f
FreeBSD/amd64 ZFS EC2 AMIs are available in the following regions:
ap-south-2 region: ami-0d3f563d617979348
ap-south-1 region: ami-03f77404c21fb5a25
eu-south-1 region: ami-0731187e3d49f6795
eu-south-2 region: ami-068b99a06abbe9a85
me-central-1 region: ami-0904554cdebb1ddab
ca-central-1 region: ami-0e96429bf976b35cb
eu-central-1 region: ami-0cb9214edc051fc88
eu-central-2 region: ami-0c4e6aad76680d64d
us-west-
