Hi everyone, We currently publish a number of VM images on download.freebsd.org:
* Generic VM images, with URLs like https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/15.0-CURRENT/amd64/20240613/FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-ufs-20240613-bb53f071e85a-270741.qcow2.xz https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/15.0-CURRENT/amd64/20240613/FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-20240613-bb53f071e85a-270741.qcow2.xz https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/15.0-CURRENT/amd64/Latest/FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-ufs.qcow2.xz https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/15.0-CURRENT/amd64/Latest/FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64.qcow2.xz * BASIC-CI images, with URLs like https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/CI-IMAGES/15.0-CURRENT/amd64/20240613/FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-BASIC-CI-20240613-bb53f071e85a-270741.raw.xz and https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/CI-IMAGES/15.0-CURRENT/amd64/Latest/FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-BASIC-CI.raw.xz * BASIC-CLOUDINIT images, with URLs like: https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/15.0-CURRENT/amd64/20240613/FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-BASIC-CLOUDINIT-20240613-bb53f071e85a-270741.ufs.qcow2.xz and https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/15.0-CURRENT/amd64/Latest/FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-BASIC-CLOUDINIT.ufs.qcow2.xz A few changes will be happening soon (probably this week for 15.x and next week for 14.x): * The BASIC-CLOUDINIT and BASIC-CI images, which are currently only published for amd64, will also be published for aarch64. * The BASIC-CI images, which currently have names like FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-BASIC-CI.raw.xz will also be published with names like FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-BASIC-CI.ufs.raw.xz (note that we currently only build UFS images for BASIC-CI; if anyone wants ZFS images for BASIC-CI I can add them easily enough). And another change will be happening some time in the next few months: * The non-filesystem-labelled images, which are identical to the UFS images and exist for backwards compatibility with scripts which were written before we added support for non-UFS images, will cease to be published on 15.x (but remain on older branches). In short: If you have code which fetches any of those images, you'll want to use the new URLs which specify the filesystem type explicitly. -- Colin Percival FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
