12.0 guest / Hyper-V VM (Windows Server 2012 R2) - vt framebuffer

[ph0enix]

What's the trick to making it work in 12.0 VM guest (Hyper-V / Windows Server 2012 R2 host)? It looks like the hyper-v modules are built by default but this command displays no available options:

vidcontrol -i mode

I want to configure a thin console font like this:

Thanks!

 

[SirDice]

vidcontrol -i mode is for sc(4) consoles. Modern FreeBSD versions have switched to vt(4).

Newcons - FreeBSD Wiki

 

[ph0enix]

Thanks for the info!
Does anyone know what driver to use with the following virtual display adapter?

vgapci0@pci0:0:8:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x53531414 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Microsoft Corporation'
    device     = 'Hyper-V virtual VGA'
    class      = display
    subclass   = VGA

 

[ph0enix]

I've been messing with this for a bit and I finally have a thin console font by setting:

hw.vga.textmode=0

...in /boot/loader.conf

Unfortunately the console resolution is still 640x480.

Setting the following does not help:

i915kms_load="YES"
kern.vt.fb.default_mode="1024x768"

Initially i915kms was not loading at boot time because it's blacklisted in /etc/defaults/loader.conf. It's loading fine after commenting out the following line:

module_blacklist="drm drm2 radeonkms i915kms amdgpu"   # Loader module blacklist

...but I have not been able to change the resolution.

 

[SirDice]

It's blacklisted for a reason. It should be loaded with kld_list not through loader.conf. Never, ever, edit /boot/defaults/loader.conf or /etc/defaults/rc.conf or any other defaults file.

 

[ph0enix]

Thanks!
I re-blacklisted i915kms again and added the following to rc.conf but it didn't work:

i915kms_load="YES"

so instead, I used:

kld_list="${kld_list} i915kms"

That loads the module at startup. I still would like to know if there is a way to change the resolution to something higher than 640x480.