FreeBSD Image Builder/Installer verimg(8) Tool

Today I will focus on creating customized FreeBSD VM image(s) and also unattended installation part of simple PKGBASE based FreeBSD system. Initially I wanted to use release.sh from /usr/src/release … but despite using freshly installed FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE in Bhyve VM with 8 CPUs and 28 GB RAM and 200GB of NVMe storage … the release.sh failed me. Every. Single. Time. I was not able to even make it finish building the stuff – always ended with different enigmatic error … and the documentation is some short introduction in release(7) man page … and in the release.sh script itself – along with its Makefile(s) in the /usr/src/release dir. Nothing in the FreeBSD Handbook … or other FreeBSD documentation. Kinda like VNET Jails not documented at all in the past. I even tried to ask for help on FreeBSD Mailing Lists … but no help either … so I did again what I always do in such situations … I wrote my simpler solution. verimg(8) Meet new verimg(8) tool for simple FreeBSD image building (and…