FreeBSD on Google Compute Engine

Question

The Google Compute Engine announcement mentions support for RHEL, SUSE, and FreeBSD. On VM creation only Debian and CentOS are available. Is FreeBSD support still being worked on or do I need to create my own disk image to start with?

Answer 1

FreeBSD is now supported by the service, but images are not provided by Google. Paul Rashidi has posted detailed steps for creating a FreeBSD image.

Later in the same thread, Dave Cottlehuber shares a tool he created to make installation easier.

For RHEL and SUSE, there is a signup link in the Premium Operating Systems documentation.

update: On June 9th, we published a video walking through the details of How to build a custom image for Compute Engine.

Answer 2

I've been working on a script to build images for FreeBSD on Google Compute Engine, see:

https://plus.google.com/112202779615695172291/posts/eYajb8JKerY

for more details.

Answer 3

Anther option for building images can be found here:

https://github.com/daveish/freebsd-gce-tools