qemu FreeBSD 14 on QEMU on MBP M2

[eirannejad]

Hello all,
I have been trying to get xorg display server to work on my freebsd 14, running on qemu (UTM.app), and with virtio_ramfb display attached to it. No matter what xorg configuration I apply, `xinit` either can not find the display or fails on "AddScreen" (using the scfb driver).

I am not a very advanced user. Any help and walkthroughs here would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Welcome to The FreeBSD Forums.

… No matter what xorg configuration I apply, ` …

Have you tried startx without attempting to manually preconfigure X.Org?

 

[eirannejad]

I have. That the first command I tried after installing xorg. Based on the man pages it seems like it is a wapper over xinit so after running into problems I tried to manually configure and test running xinit. Are you running xorg successfully in QEMU on an ARM MackBook?

 

[SirDice]

Is x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb installed? It's included with the "full" x11/xorg but not with x11/xorg-minimal.

 

[kpedersen]

After running startx, can you post your xorg.log here?

(You can find it in ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.n.log)

If it can't find the display or screen, perhaps there is some hint in there as to why they aren't attaching correctly.

Additionally, as a workaround, you can likely sidestep this issue using either of the following:

• tigervnc's Xvnc server - Stream graphics via a VNC server
• X11/ssh and XQuartz - Forward X11 instructions via SSH into a native Xserver running on the host

 

[eirannejad]

This is what the logs look like after running startx

 

[eirannejad]

Is x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb installed? It's included with the "full" x11/xorg but not with x11/xorg-minimal.

It is a full system install so I am assuming the drivers are installed. I can see the `scfb_drv.so` under xorg libs so I guess that is a yes.

 

[spruzmoose]

I am using qemu from MacPorts rather than UTM, but I also had trouble with the framebuffer. Instead, I used x11-drivers/xorgxrdp in my aarch64 FreeBSD vm, then forwarded the vm's port 3389 to my host, and connected with MacPorts' net/FreeRDP, as Microsoft's Remote Desktop app did not seem to allow arbitrary ports. I was able to get the x11/mate metapackage installed and working, and www/firefox/ is working. I have not really pushed the graphics too hard (video, games, etc). Using RDP instead of a framebuffer might not work for your use case, depending on expectations.

 

[Kh_Oleg]

This is what the logs look like after running startx

I have the same issue, running FreeBSD 14.1 under UTM on M1, Xorg.0.log is the same, scfb driver is installed.

 

[eternal_noob]

FYI, here is a similar thread.

(Apple M1) startx will not run driver error

Can you please help? I am using UTM on the Apple M1 I get the following error when I attempt to start startx. AddScreen/ScreenINT failed for driver 0 pkg install drm-kmod does not work Anyone know what graphics driver I should be using?

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