On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:23:56PM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote: febootstrap is nowadays a cross-platform appliance builder which supports currently yum+rpm (Fedora and RHEL), apt+dpkg (ie. Debian and Ubuntu), and pacman (ArchLinux). If you want to use febootstrap to build the appliance, it may be possible to modify febootstrap to use FreeBSD packages (not ports). See this page for more information on what is involved: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2011-March/msg00098.html Also it's a good idea to read the man pages for febootstrap(8) and febootstrap-supermin-helper(8) online at http://libguestfs.org/ An alternative is that you have your own technology for building a FreeBSD-based appliance. All you need to do is to build a small appliance which contains the daemon (guestfsd) and starts the daemon on boot. Another alternative, which is probably not very appealing to you, would be to prebuild the Fedora appliance and ship that. There would of course be licensing conditions around this. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top