Re:FreeBSD 14.0 has reached – RELEASE
by doublerabbit on Friday November 10, 2023 @04:03PM
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The hypervisor is not enterprise like VMware where you can easily pass 3D accelerated adapters. But it's still very usable over remote-desktop. Windows Server works a charm, as does Linux Desktops via VNC or whatever remote protocol you use.
You can pass though hardware devices including graphic cards but you need to have it as a secondary and unused. bHyve is unable to use the primary card as well as a shared device for the guest.
Yeah the thing is that bhyve doesn't seem to have an emulated console like the other virtualization solutions out there. That makes things a little more cumbersome.
I'm not even talking about 3D passthrough. Just a fake VGA adapter you can see in a window so you can run an installer.
It provides a graphical console over VNC:
https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/wiki/UEFI-Graphics-(VN...
Does it work well with graphics?
I just started using FreeBSD and one of the first thing I did was to follow the Handbook instructions to set up a minimal Debian in Bhyve that I then used to access my old Linux partitions to copy files. Works very well for that and I have no complaints, but I also can't say I noticed any major improvement over Qemu?
But I made a quick attempt to also install something with graphics, probably Lubuntu, and I did not get that to boot. Is the graphics good enough to play games and run some Linux-only applications with reasonable performance?