How to run a FreeBSD Virtual Machine on the RPI4 with QEMU. Part 1: QEMU setup
I got a Raspberry PI 4 a couple of months back and started it use it to run virtual machines.
This works great for GNU/Linux distributions but FreeBSD as a virtual machine didn’t work for me. When I tried to install FreeBSD or import a virtual machine image, FreeBSD wasn’t able to mount the root filesystem and ended with an “error 19”.
On the FreeBSD wiki, there are a few articles on how to use ARM64 FreeBSD with QEMU directly.
You find my journey of getting a FreeBSD Virtual Machine below.
I use Manjaro on my Raspberry PI, but the same setup will work with other GNU/Linux distributions.
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