diff --git a/pkg/specgen/generate/validate_freebsd.go b/pkg/specgen/generate/validate_freebsd.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..00cc210c2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/specgen/generate/validate_freebsd.go
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+package generate
+
+import "github.com/containers/podman/v4/pkg/specgen"
+
+// verifyContainerResources does nothing on freebsd as it has no cgroups
+func verifyContainerResources(s *specgen.SpecGenerator) ([]string, error) {
+	return nil, nil
+}
diff --git a/pkg/specgen/generate/validate.go b/pkg/specgen/generate/validate_linux.go
similarity index 100%
rename from pkg/specgen/generate/validate.go
rename to pkg/specgen/generate/validate_linux.go