New video BIOS for bhyve

2019-07-19 Thread Henrik Gulbrandsen
In the last few months, I have been extending the video support in bhyve to allow booting from live ISO images, which sometimes lack UEFI loaders. There was already a video BIOS with dormant support for VGA, but I could not use that, because the X11 int10 module runs a real-mode x86 emulator tha

Re: New video BIOS for bhyve

2019-07-19 Thread Henrik Gulbrandsen
On 2019-07-19 16:43, Matthew Grooms wrote: There was already a video BIOS with dormant support for VGA, but I could not use that, because the X11 int10 module runs a real-mode x86 emulator that aborts when it tries to enter the C code running in protected mode. I wonder if this could be relat

Re: New video BIOS for bhyve

2019-08-03 Thread Henrik Gulbrandsen
On 2019-08-01 19:08, John Baldwin wrote: This is pretty impressive work! Would you be able to post these patches to a public repository, e.g. on github or gitlab or some such? That would really help with review and allow others to assist with the work as well. Thanks. I would be happy to do

Re: New video BIOS for bhyve

2019-08-03 Thread Henrik Gulbrandsen
On 2019-08-01 19:19, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: I let this fall through my cracks as well while busy with other things. I too would like to see this work moved forward. I see that your patches are against an 11.3 system, and can appreciate that not everone has resources to run -head, how can we as

Re: Bhyve virtual graphics card.

2019-08-03 Thread Henrik Gulbrandsen
On 2019-08-02 17:43, Nick Wolff wrote: > I was curious if anyone especially henrick had ever looked at pulling in > virgil3d https://virgil3d.github.io/ a virtio-gpu implementation . > > Virgil3d is a virtual video card that passes opengl calls down to the host > instead of trying to pass thro

Re: New video BIOS for bhyve

2019-08-15 Thread Henrik Gulbrandsen
On 2019-08-03 22:32, Henrik Gulbrandsen wrote: On 2019-08-01 19:19, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: I let this fall through my cracks as well while busy with other things. I too would like to see this work moved forward. I see that your patches are against an 11.3 system, and can appreciate that not

Re: Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

2019-12-01 Thread Henrik Gulbrandsen
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

Re: Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

2019-12-01 Thread Henrik Gulbrandsen
On 2019-12-01 18:51, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: You do not need the Video BIOS patch for a FreeBSD guest. Fair enough. For some reason I thought the UEFI implementation had a more limited set of display resolutions, but I have never tested it. It was just my luck to start with the single Linux dis

Re: [GPU pass-through] no compatible bridge window for claimed BAR

2020-03-19 Thread Henrik Gulbrandsen
On 2020-03-19 11:19, Robert Crowston wrote: Do we have already some code for ROM BAR somewhere? Henrik Gulbrandsen was working on expansion ROM support last July (CC'd). He posted his work up on https://www.gulbra.net/freebsd-bhyve/. Yeah, I'm still on the list. I'm jus

Re: [Bug 246121] [bhyve][PATCH] Append Keyboard Layout specified option for using VNC.

2020-05-28 Thread Henrik Gulbrandsen
On 2020-05-28 13:44, bugzilla-nore...@freebsd.org wrote: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246121 --- Comment #6 from Peter Grehan --- TigerVNC in ports is v1.10.1, which is the latest official release. The Qemu key event code has been in there for a couple of years now. I'll

Re: FreeBSD a server and bhyve

2020-08-12 Thread Henrik Gulbrandsen
On 2020-08-11 21:38, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 20:23, Pete Wright wrote: On 8/11/20 5:49 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Hi infoomatic, > > Looks like I have to top-post so as to not mess the thread: > > The reason I need a VM is because I need to totally independent ho