bhyve how to start desktop on fb15 guest in bhyve?

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Annalesa

I created a FreeBSD 15 virtual machine using bhyve on a FreeBSD 15 host. I installed xorg and startx but found 0 GPUs. How can I get the guest to start the desktop environment?
 
sorry, found 0 GPUs is when start sway
startx is Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify bufIDs for all framebuff devices
 
It shouldn't be necessary. I see from another post that you're not using vm-bhyve, which is all I'm familiar with, but at any rate, to get X running on a FreeBSD VM, I install xorg-server, xf86-input-libinput, xf86-video-scfb xinit (which provides startx), then a window manager, alacritty terminal and perhaps liberation-fonts-ttf. I don't really keep track of what else that pulls in.
 
SirDice said:
Sorry, thought it said VirtualBox.

In any case, it'll work with bhyve(8) but you must UEFI boot the VM and enable the graphics/VNC console. Then you can use the scfb(4) video driver for Xorg.
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I installed xf86-video-scfb but I don't know how to use it.
kldload scfb
says
kldload: Can't load scfb: No.such file or directory
 
You would not kload it. Once it's installed if you run startx, then X should start. You might be better off with vm-bhyve, which automates some of it. Then you could use a template like
loader="uefi" graphics="yes" xhci_mouse="yes" cpu=1 memory=2048M network0_type="virtio-net" network0_switch="public" disk0_type="virtio-blk" disk0_name="disk0.img"
vermaden has a page on vm-bhyve, https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/freebsd-bhyve-virtualization/

As SirDice wrote above, you need to have the uefi loader to have X (or Wayland) working in a bhyve vm.
 
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