The download link points to a live image so you just need to point to it as the root disk of your hypervisor's guest and off you go. Unfortunately there's a catch, the 4GB fs is not big enough and the provided packages are huge here because they're unstripped. The quickest option is to attach a secondary disk and mount that to /usr/pkg or follow the steps in the "Install" link on the website to copy the contents of the image you downloaded to the new disk & boot from your new disk. Note the root password in viewpoint-password.txt which is included the download. This is due to not being able to have an account without a password by default and it was safer to do this than to poke new holes to accomodate that and creating bigger problems down the line. There is nothing is listening on the network by default and networking is not working either. sshd's PermitRootLogin setting is set to prohibit-password as default. Once you have logged in as root, note the message printed from /etc/motd to get going. To convert the downloaded raw image to your hypervisor's native format the qemu-img utility which comes with qemu can be used. qemu-img convert viewpoint-0.0.img -O vmdk viewpoint-0.0.vmdk Booting the image with VirtualBox Convert the viewpoint-0.0.img to vmdk format using qemu-img When creating a new VM using the wizard, choose "Use an existing virtual hard disk file" and point to the vmdk file you created. Todo: Add instructions for creating a VM with VBoxManage. Booting the image with Qemu qemu-system-x86_64 -hda viewpoint-0.0.img -hdb secondary.img -m 1G -accel kvm \ -net nic -vga std Booting the image with bhyve using grub2-bhyve grub-bhyve -m viewpoint.map -r hd0,msdos1 -M 1G viewpoint viewpoint.map contains '(hd0) /path/to/viewpoint-0.0.img' (without single quotes) bhyve -A -H -P -c 1 -m 1G -s0:0,hostbridge -s 2:0,ahci-hd,viewpoint-0.0.img \ -s 31,lpc -l com1,stdio viewpoint