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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?
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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.
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