Re: Accessing a VMs GUI

On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 9:21 AM Corvin Köhne <corvink@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2024-05-24 at 17:08 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > FreeBSD 14-RELEASE.
> >
> > I am completely unable to get my mouse working on ALL my bhyve VMs.
> > This used to work before I upgraded to FreeBSD 14 RELEASE.
> >
> > How I start my VM:
> >
> > # Linux Guest
> > /usr/sbin/bhyve -A -D -H -P -S -u -w -c 8 -m 8G \
> > -s 0,hostbridge \
> > -s 4,virtio-blk,/usr/local/bhyve-vms/Ubuntu/ubuntu.img \
> > -s 5,virtio-net,tap4 \
> > -s 8,hda,play=/dev/dsp,rec=/dev/dsp \
> > -s 29,fbuf,tcp=0.0.0.0:5905,w=1024,h=768 \
> > -s 30,xhci,tablet \
> > -s 31,lpc -l com1,stdio \
> > -l bootrom,/usr/local/share/uefi-firmware/BHYVE_UEFI.fd \
> > ubuntu
> >
> >
> > Now I wonder what happened. No amount of changing w=,h= can help. I
> > have even tried 800x600.
> > Even during the installation of a new VM, I have to rely completely
> > on the keyboard.
> >
> > My VMs are on a remote server so I use VNCViewer to access them via
> > public_ip:XXXX.
> >
> > Is this a problem with bhyve or my VNCViewer guys?
> >
> > I really need help with this.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> > Nairobi,KE
> > +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
> >  In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS.
> > "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-)
> > [How to ask smart
> > questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
>
> Looks like a recent fix for XHCI [1] is missing in releng/14.0. It will
> be included in 14.1 which is close to be released.
>
>
> [1]
>
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/0c243cd4a3671bf728f33378ac593c08d8367bc2
>
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Corvin
>


Thank you very much for this information.

-- 
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS.
"Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-)
[How to ask smart questions:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]