View Source Building FreeBSD VMs in Proxmox

An example configuration to create a VM for FreeBSD in Proxmox.

This guide is not intended to be a tutorial for Proxmox, but rather a reference for creating a VM for FreeBSD on Proxmox.

Name Your Virtual Machine

Select the ISO

If not already added, you can add a FreeBSD ISO by clicking on a host under the Datacenter (pve by default) and selecting local and then Download from URL to add an ISO Image. FreeBSD ISO's can be found at FreeBSD ISO Images.

Pasting the 14.1 link https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.1/FreeBSD-14.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso into the URL section and clicking Query URL will validate the link to the ISO.

Back at your VM creation, select the ISO you just added.

Set the OS Type

Set the OS type to "other".

System Configuration

Set the Graphics card to VirtIO-GPU and the Machine to q35. Optionally enable the Qemu Agent.

Disk Configuration

Use the VirtIO Block for the Bus/Device.

CPU Configuration

Select the number of CPU's you want to allocate to the VM. Enable AES instruction set and 1GB page sizes.

Allocate Memory

Network Configuration

Use the VirtIO (paravirtualized) network card.

Confirm

Proxmox Configuration File

Below is the resulting config file for this example FreeBSD VM configuration in Proxmox.

agent: 1
boot: order=virtio0;ide2;net0
cores: 8
cpu: host,flags=+pdpe1gb;+aes
ide2: local:iso/FreeBSD-14.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso,media=cdrom,size=1146374K
machine: q35
memory: 4096
meta: creation-qemu=8.1.5,ctime=1731773520
name: BSD-Install-Demo
net0: virtio=BC:24:11:61:1F:96,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
numa: 0
ostype: other
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=0be523c5-e87b-4120-a07b-a9d3493491d9
sockets: 1
vga: virtio
virtio0: local-zfs:vm-200-disk-0,iothread=1,size=64G
vmgenid: dfd5e6ba-dd39-44d9-8f0e-216b5700579f