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Re:FreeBSD 14.0 has reached – RELEASE by doublerabbit on Friday November 10, 2023 @04:03PM (#38224494)
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.

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Re:FreeBSD 14.0 has reached – RELEASE by wkat4242 on Friday November 10, 2023 @09:35PM (#38227126)
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.

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Re:FreeBSD 14.0 has reached – RELEASE by ptx on Saturday November 11, 2023 @05:20PM (#38235168)
It provides a graphical console over VNC: https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/wiki/UEFI-Graphics-(VN...
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Re:FreeBSD 14.0 has reached – RELEASE by wkat4242 on Saturday November 11, 2023 @07:47PM (#38236144)
Oh that's not too bad, I thought graphics always needed host OS network support. I'll try it, thanks!
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