Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > Henrik Gulbrandsen wrote: > > > On 2019-12-01 06:35, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > > If I were to test different desktop environments (gnome, xfce etc) in a > > > > FreeBSD guest in bhyve, what X server (probably with vnc access, or rdp > > > > access, or whatever?) would you advise? > > > > > > This will work with the normal X server and bhyve's built-in VNC if > > > you run the guest with UEFI CSM and apply my Video BIOS patch: > > > > > > https://www.gulbra.net/freebsd-bhyve/ > > > > I'd prefer to stick to bhyveload for now. > > I would strongly encourage you to use vnc and UEFI bios mode > in bhyve for what you are attempting to do. Unless your guess > is not able to run a uefi frame buffer type display, which any > recent FreeBSD should be just fine with.
All right, I just tried to install FreeBSD 12.1 under vm-bhyve in UEFI mode. Well, the installation was not trivial. At first, in the VNC client, I see the loader menu, then the "Loading kernel..." message, and then a blank screen. Fine, I run "vm console" and install via the serial console, the UEFI screen still being blank. Second, unless I select ZFS, there is no option to install on GPT+UEFI. Fine, let's install on ZFS. Installation complete, reboot... The serial console is available, the UEFI VNC console is available too, though much later :-) Fine, I will experiment with that. Maybe Gnome or xfce will recognize this console as a monitor. Thank you for the hint, Rodney! -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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