hello. I hope this doesn't touch the forum rules (closing not exists posts, mentions about other os-es). I'm a linux daily driver who wants to test FreeBSD. The goal is to check the performance difference and maturity of freebsd's wayland environment compared to Linux.
So I tried installing freebsd 15 on a virtual machine. But after hours I couldn't find a way to run a graphical wayland session. Here is some cases:
- virtualbox: Graphics were fixed to `vmsvga` (cannot be modified in gui), and could not be changed to `vboxsvga`, etc. I couldn't find the relevant driver in FreeBSD (I looked at the package, but there was no activity in a year and I couldn't confirm whether it ran properly).
- vmware: `vmwgfx` driver not found in FreeBSD 15.
- virt-manager/libvirt/qemu: `virtio-gpu` driver not found in freebsd.
I believe that GPU and DRI/DRM are needed to run wayland. I'm wondering if there is a hypervisor with FreeBSD as a guest that properly runs virtual GPUs. How can I run a wayland graphical session?
I also posted a question on Reddit[0] yesterday, but couldn't find any new clues.
There doesn't seem to be any special guidance in FreeBSD book (mentions driver and package names, but running as a guest in wayland's own section, etc.)
Your advice will be helpful.
Although I did not install X.org separately, I confirmed that the existing freebsd fork ran although there were graphics-related problems.
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rw18zm/
So I tried installing freebsd 15 on a virtual machine. But after hours I couldn't find a way to run a graphical wayland session. Here is some cases:
- virtualbox: Graphics were fixed to `vmsvga` (cannot be modified in gui), and could not be changed to `vboxsvga`, etc. I couldn't find the relevant driver in FreeBSD (I looked at the package, but there was no activity in a year and I couldn't confirm whether it ran properly).
- vmware: `vmwgfx` driver not found in FreeBSD 15.
- virt-manager/libvirt/qemu: `virtio-gpu` driver not found in freebsd.
I believe that GPU and DRI/DRM are needed to run wayland. I'm wondering if there is a hypervisor with FreeBSD as a guest that properly runs virtual GPUs. How can I run a wayland graphical session?
I also posted a question on Reddit[0] yesterday, but couldn't find any new clues.
There doesn't seem to be any special guidance in FreeBSD book (mentions driver and package names, but running as a guest in wayland's own section, etc.)
Your advice will be helpful.
Although I did not install X.org separately, I confirmed that the existing freebsd fork ran although there were graphics-related problems.
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rw18zm/