diff --git a/doc/image-guide/ch_creating_images_manually.xml b/doc/image-guide/ch_creating_images_manually.xml
index 3e0ae3a0ab..81c49a35f0 100644
--- a/doc/image-guide/ch_creating_images_manually.xml
+++ b/doc/image-guide/ch_creating_images_manually.xml
@@ -167,4 +167,5 @@ the console to complete the installation process.</computeroutput></screen>
     <xi:include href="section_centos-example.xml"/>
     <xi:include href="section_ubuntu-example.xml"/>
     <xi:include href="section_windows-example.xml"/>
+    <xi:include href="section_freebsd-example.xml"/>
 </chapter>
diff --git a/doc/image-guide/section_freebsd-example.xml b/doc/image-guide/section_freebsd-example.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a01ed0d540
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/image-guide/section_freebsd-example.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+    <section
+        xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+        xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+        xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+        version="5.0"
+        xml:id="example-freebsd-image">
+    <title>Example: FreeBSD image</title>
+    <para>We do not yet have a fully documented example of how to create a
+        FreeBSD image.</para>
+    <para>See the <link xlink:href="http://pellaeon.github.io/bsd-cloudinit/">bsd-cloudinit</link>
+        project for information on how to build a FreeBSD VM image that
+        works with OpenStack.
+    </para>
+</section>