Connecting an external USB SSD with a UFS partition to a FreeBSD virtual machine running on QEMU on Raspberry Pi OS, RPi 500 keyboard model
Connecting an external USB SSD with a UFS partition to a FreeBSD virtual machine running on QEMU, hosted on a Raspberry Pi OS, involves several steps. The goal is to make the USB SSD accessible to the FreeBSD guest as a file storage system. Below is a step-by-step guide to achieve this, assuming the host is a Raspberry Pi running Raspberry Pi OS (Linux-based) and the guest is a FreeBSD virtual machine in QEMU. Prerequisites Hardware : Raspberry Pi (e.g., Pi 4 or 5) running Raspberry Pi OS. External USB SSD with a UFS partition (formatted on a FreeBSD system, as UFS is not natively supported by Linux). Sufficient power for the USB SSD (use a powered USB hub if needed, as Raspberry Pi USB ports may not provide enough power for some drives). Software : QEMU installed on the Raspberry Pi OS ( qemu-system-aarch64 for ARM64 architecture). FreeBSD disk image or installed FreeBSD VM for QEMU. Basic familiarity with Linux and FreeBSD command-line tools. Notes : Linux (Raspb...