FreeBSD/arm64 snapshot fetch and start in QEMU

by emaste
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FreeBSD snapshots are announced on the freebsd-snapshots mailing list, https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-snapshots

This asciicast shows a fetch of a recent snapshot from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/11.0-CURRENT/aarch64/20160308/FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-20160308-r296485.raw.xz and the modified EFI firmware from http://people.freebsd.org/~gjb/QEMU_EFI.fd

The VM image is then started in qemu-system-aarch64. The boot and login to the VM image can be seen in https://asciinema.org/a/40575