diff --git a/scripts/vagrant/Vagrantfile b/scripts/vagrant/Vagrantfile
index 230495805..2988f6f1d 100644
--- a/scripts/vagrant/Vagrantfile
+++ b/scripts/vagrant/Vagrantfile
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
   when "freebsd11"
     #See: https://app.vagrantup.com/generic/boxes/freebsd11
     config.vm.box = "generic/freebsd11"
+    if File.file?(File.expand_path("~/vagrant_pkg.conf"))
+      config.vm.provision  "file", source: "~/vagrant_pkg.conf", destination: "pkg.conf"
+      config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "sudo mv pkg.conf /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf"
+      config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "sudo chown root:wheel /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf"
+      config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "sudo chmod 644 /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf"
+    end
   else
     "Invalid argument #{distro}"
     abort("Invalid argument!")
diff --git a/scripts/vagrant/create_vbox.sh b/scripts/vagrant/create_vbox.sh
index f7a75f650..869a46e90 100755
--- a/scripts/vagrant/create_vbox.sh
+++ b/scripts/vagrant/create_vbox.sh
@@ -181,6 +181,13 @@ if [ ${DRY_RUN} != 1 ]; then
 		else
 			vagrant plugin install vagrant-proxyconf
 		fi
+		if echo "$SPDK_VAGRANT_DISTRO" | grep -q freebsd; then
+			cat >~/vagrant_pkg.conf <<EOF
+pkg_env: {
+http_proxy: ${http_proxy}
+}
+EOF
+		fi
 	fi
 	vagrant up $provider
 	echo ""