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Multiple static IPs on specific wifi SSIDs and DHCP elsewhere? I'd like to use static IPs for my home wifi, but DHCP on any other unrelated SSID I might connect to outside the house. Would something like this work in ` `rc.conf``? Code: # Wifi wlans_iwm0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA inet '192.168.1.150/24' ssid 'Highgate (5GHz)'" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA inet '192.168.1.150/24' ssid 'The Crossroads (2.4GHz)'" ifconfig_wlan0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"

19.08.2025 22:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Object Oriented Programming really an Advantage I have just learned a little of Javascript, some principles, what objects are, prototypes, inheritance, constructors. I played a little with node.js I also read once about the tcl extension tclOO for object oriented programming, but forgot everything. Sure, the theory looks nice. I do understand that it may have advantages, encapsulating code, making some order, but I have the feeling it is an exaggeration. If I have to program, I have no idea how to begin using that. Are eventually pointers to structures in C not enough? What is your opinion / experience?

19.08.2025 20:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cisco USB-USB console and umodem driver More and more equipment (switches and router) only have an USB port as the console port. As an example, the new C9200CX do not have a RS232 port but only USB. FreeBSD uses the umodem driver in combination with the ucom driver to connect the hardware chip to a /dev/cuaUX device file. All this works as it should and I can do "cu -l cuaU0 -s 9600" and get a connect. But no text at all. Windows, MacOS and Linux have working drivers. The umodem driver from NetBSD hasn´t been touched in a long time. How can we fix this?

19.08.2025 17:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Upgrade of specific package Is it safe to upgrade a specific package, e.g. ` `pkg upgrade firefox``? What has been your experience?

19.08.2025 11:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Poudriere, PACKAGE_FETCH_WHITELIST, and how do I avoid building rust? I've got a 14.0-RC1 VM running on a Macbook Air, which I'm using to try to get to understand poudriere a little. My VM doesn't have the resources to build rust, so I'm using poudriere-devel. In /usr/local/etc/poudriere.conf I have added Code: #PACKAGE_FETCH_BRANCH=latest PACKAGE_FETCH_URL=pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/\${ABI} PACKAGE_FETCH_BLACKLIST="" PACKAGE_FETCH_WHITELIST="gcc* rust llvm*" & I've make a poudriere jail, poo14. poudriere still wants to build rust, saying Code: root@fair14:~ # cat /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/poo14-make.conf lang_rust_UNSET=PORT_LLVM root@fair14:~ # poudriere bulk -j poo14 -p default -f /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/packages-default -b latest -v ... [00:00:08] Package fetch: Skipping rust-1.72.0: options wanted: +DOCS -GDB -LTO -PORT_LLVM +SOURCES +WASM [00:00:08] Package fetch: Skipping rust-1.72.0: options remote: +DOCS -GDB -LTO +SOURCES +WASM [00:00:08] Package fetch: No packages eligible to fetch I'm sure there's more than one thing I've misunderstood, but how do I get past this thing wanting PORT_LLVM?

19.08.2025 11:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Xaw3dxft is alive and well libXaw3dXft is alive and well: * https://github.com/DaveFlater/libXaw3dXft * https://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/files/libxaw3dxft/ was the old website. Version 1.6.4 was released 2 months ago. Version 1.6.3 was released 4 months ago. Sadly, the original author of libxaw3dxft, Jean-Pierre Demailly, passed away. He was a mathematician, notable enough to have his own Wikipedia page. The old website wasn't recoverable, so the new steward copied it to GitHub and there's an additional contributor who have worked on it. The old website hosted xpaint, which libxaw3dxft was a toolkit for. Xpaint was under GPL, while Xaw3dxft is under a permissive license. The last version of _`x11-toolkits/libxaw3dxft`_ from Sourceforge was 1.6.2.h. These previous versions from Sourceforge came out soon after each version of libxaw3d. It mirrored libXaw3d, except it has additional Internationalization support through Xft. It's the only Xaw implementation with Internationalization support, meaning for written fonts of world wide languages,. The old Sourceforge repository also had applications that ran on the library, and there were patches available there for them too. LibXaw3d stewarded by Xorg is currently at version 1.6.6: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxaw3d/-/tree/libXaw3d-1.6.6. While Xaw still gets updates, it's versions are less modern. An older thread FreeBSD thread on Xaw implementations, some explanations, diagrams and screenshots: Thread athena-widgets-xaw-implementations.81588. Based on old screenshots, the graphical style of Xaw3dxft is identical to that Xaw3d, since the difference is the addition of Xft fonts. Actually, the version of Xaw on FreeBSD is over a decade behind the latest version of Xaw from Xorg. There has been a bit of Internet interest in Xaw implementations since 2002.

19.08.2025 06:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What substitute for graphics/cinepaint? Unfortunately, now _`graphics/cinepaint`_ disappeared from ports. And I do not know other high-depth (16-bit channels) images editing tools available for FreeBSD. Are there any?

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Dell Latitude 7220 Rugged Tablet - PS/2 Touchpad Not Detected in FreeBSD 14.3 The touchpad on my Dell Latitude 7220 Rugged Tablet (with attached keyboard dock) is not being detected in FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE, despite working perfectly in Debian 13. The touchpad appears to be a PS/2 device but FreeBSD's kernel is not initializing the PS/2 AUX port. ## Hardware Details - **Device**: Dell Latitude 7220 Rugged Tablet - **Keyboard Dock**: Dell detachable keyboard with integrated touchpad - **Touchpad Hardware ID**: DLL093D (Dell touchpad) - **ACPI PNP ID**: PNP0F13 (PS/2 Mouse) ## Working Configuration in Debian 13 In Debian, the touchpad works as a standard PS/2 mouse: ``` # From Debian dmesg: [ 0.828844] i8042: PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303S2K,PNP0f13S2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 [ 0.831089] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [ 0.831095] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 [ 1.786835] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5 # From /proc/bus/input/devices: I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=0000 N: Name="ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse" P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0 ``` ## FreeBSD 14.3 Behavior The PS/2 keyboard controller is detected, but only the keyboard port is initialized - the AUX (mouse) port is never set up: ``` # From FreeBSD dmesg: atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 # Note: No psm0 device is created # The ACPI device is recognized but not attached: $ sysctl dev.psmcpnp.0 dev.psmcpnp.0.%parent: acpi0 dev.psmcpnp.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=DLL093D _UID=0 _CID=PNP0F13 dev.psmcpnp.0.%location: handle=\\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.PS2M dev.psmcpnp.0.%driver: psmcpnp dev.psmcpnp.0.%desc: PS/2 mouse port ``` ## Attempted Solutions I've tried various configurations without success: ### /boot/loader.conf ``` hw.psm.synaptics_support=1 hw.psm.elantech_support=1 hw.psm.trackpoint_support=1 hw.psm.mux_disabled=0 hw.atkbdc.broken_kit_cmd=1 hint.psm.0.at="atkbdc" hint.psm.0.irq="12" ``` ### /boot/device.hints ``` hint.psm.0.at="atkbdc" hint.psm.0.irq="12" hint.psm.0.flags="0x0100" # Also tried 0x0200 ``` ### Also tried: - Disabling moused (`sysrc moused_enable=NO`) - Forcing ISA attachment instead of ACPI - Various psm flags (0x0100, 0x0200) - Loading additional modules (ums, uhid, evdev) ## Additional Information - The touchpad is NOT connected via USB (verified with `usbconfig`) - No I2C HID devices detected (tried loading ig4, iichid modules) - The touchscreen (eGalaxTouch) works fine via USB HID - libinput only shows "System mouse" which produces no events - DMI info shows: "Built-in Pointing Device, Type: Touch Pad, Interface: Bus Mouse, Buttons: 2" ## ACPI DSDT Extract ``` Name (P2MN, "DLL093D") Device (PS2M) { Method (_HID, 0, NotSerialized) // _HID: Hardware ID { Return (P2MN) /* \\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.P2MN */ } Name (_CID, EisaId ("PNP0F13") /* PS/2 Mouse */) // _CID: Compatible ID Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized) // _STA: Status { Return (0x0F) } } ``` ## Question It appears the FreeBSD kernel is not initializing the PS/2 AUX port on the i8042 controller, even though the ACPI information is present and correct. The same hardware works in Linux, suggesting this is a FreeBSD-specific issue with this Dell model. Is there a known issue with PS/2 AUX port initialization on Dell Latitude 7220 or similar models? Are there any kernel patches or additional configuration options I should try? ## System Information ``` $ uname -a FreeBSD rr 14.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE releng/14.3-n271432-8c9ce319fef7 GENERIC amd64 $ freebsd-version 14.3-RELEASE ``` Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

19.08.2025 03:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reaper (Linux) on FreeBSD **Reaper (Linux) v7.34 tested on FreeBSD Release 14.2-p1 installation with the XFCE 4.20 desktop environment. _This guide assumes:_** -a suitable OS configuration for desktop/laptop use is already done -user membership in the groups: _wheel, operator, realtime, video_ -Linux Binary Compatibility is enabled in `/boot/loader.conf` and `/etc/rc.conf` -`proc` mounting is configured correctly in `/etc/fstab` **_Minimum required packages for Reaper to execute successfully:_** Rocky Linux 9 Base _`emulators/linux_base-rl9`_ Shared Library for: `libasound.so.2` _`audio/linux-rl9-alsa-lib`_ Shared Library for: `libX11.so.6` _`x11/linux-rl9-xorg-libs`_ Shared Library for: `libGL.so.1` _`graphics/linux-rl9-libglvnd`_ GTK Compatibility for: `gdk_init_check` _`x11-toolkits/linux-rl9-gtk2`_ _`x11-toolkits/linux-rl9-gtk3`_ These are enough to get Reaper running, but deeper testing is needed.

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which O.S. do you use ? When you don't use freebd (bad,bad,bad). Which O.S., distro,derivative do you use ? Me : -Windows ( for games, steam) -Artix linux (an arch clone without systemd) -Redcore linux (a gentoo clone) -MX linux (a debian clone)

18.08.2025 23:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

u-boot questions regarding the rockchip rk 3399... Hello. I've installed FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE on both my boards (RockPro64 and Khadas Edge V),both based on the Rockchip RK3399 and I've used a display that has a resolution of 720 x 720 resolution and I saw that the screen remains almost black (almost because I see a dim illumination coming from the display) . I don't even see the u-boot logo. Instead,it is able to turn on my large HDMI monitor,which has a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels. Since I'm building a FreeBSD modular phone, I want to use a small HDMI display with a low resolution. My question is : why is u-boot able to turn on a monitor that has a resolution of 1920x1080 and it's not able to turn on the other HDMI display that has a resolution of 720x720 ? Or even better : what's the lowest resolution that will work ? If I want to buy a display that has a resolution of 800x600,will u-boot be able to turn it on ? 1024x768 ? more ? Thanks.

18.08.2025 22:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

LLC prefetch + ZFS I'm in the midst of a server rebuild, and I'm puzzling over the LLC prefetch option in my Supermicro X11DPH-I BIOS. The default setting is disabled, but it sounds like it could be a useful feature to turn on. Any comments / experiences people can offer on whether this plays well with ZFS? More generally, how would enabling this option impact performance for a FreeBSD storage server running a few jails?

18.08.2025 21:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Using the system while building packages feels laggy. Hi. I use ZFS on Root, have a cpu with igpu (4 core 8 threads), 16GB RAM and 32GB SWAP on a M2 NVME disk. My problem is, While compiling packages in background, even though I didn't gave all my cpu threads to poudriere, my system feels laggy. I don't know what's causing the issue. I didn't limit RAM usage by poudriere, currently im building electron27 with all it's dependencies with ` `PARALLEL_JOBS=4`` (i guess that mean 4 threads will be used by poudriere). Code: % uname -aKU FreeBSD desktop.home.lan 14.1-STABLE FreeBSD 14.1-STABLE stable/14-n267701-e73147fc7ca6 GENERIC amd64 1401500 1401500

18.08.2025 21:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

no pools available to import message on boot Hi. I'm having "no pools available to import" message on boot. Why is this happening? I am using 14.0-R.

18.08.2025 20:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

sccache on i386 poudriere jail gives abort trap when starting sccache Hi, I am able to use sccache when on amd64 jail, but not on i386 jail, i wonder if sccache isn't supported on i386? The jail works fine without sccache. I am using non-devel poudriere, maybe non-devel version don't support overlays? idk... Thanks in advance. Code: # poudriere ports -l PORTSTREE METHOD TIMESTAMP PATH default null 2025-05-11 23:18:40 /usr/ports sccache null 2025-05-11 22:47:14 /usr/local/share/sccache/overlay Code: ===> Returning to build of colord-1.4.7_3 =========================================================================== =======================<phase: configure >============================ ===== env: NO_DEPENDS=yes USER=root UID=0 GID=0 ===> Configuring for colord-1.4.7_3 ==> Starting sccache Abort trap *** Signal 6 Stop. make: stopped in /usr/ports/graphics/colord =>> Cleaning up wrkdir ===> Cleaning for colord-1.4.7_3 build of graphics/colord | colord-1.4.7_3 ended at Sat May 31 12:33:48 +03 2025 build time: 00:00:05 !!! build failure encountered !!!

18.08.2025 20:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Intermittent unresponsiveness Just got back from my Summer holidays and did an update of my main desktop machine. FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE with quarterly ports. Rebooting was very slow with USB taking a few minutes. Now mouse and keyboard input freezes every few minutes, and strangely I keep getting the volume control slider briefly appearing. Is anyone else seeing this> Any fixes?

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Interface Bridging Issues and Limitations Desired outcome: I would like to be able to use the second port on my FreeBSD firewall's 10G adapter (Intel X520-DA2) to act as a switch port so that I can connect another FreeBSD system. Ideally, the secondary host would connect to the firewall's ix1 port directly to provide network and Internet access to jails and bhyve guests running on both the untagged LAN and various VLAN's. This is proving to be much more challenging than I had originally anticipated, and I am going in circles with AI platforms trying to figure this out. Background: my FreeBSD firewalls are running in high-availability mode using CARP. The primary firewall connects to my core switch using a 10G connection, the backup firewall connects via a 1G connection. I only have two 10G ports on my core switch, one of which is connected to the primary firewall, the other is connected to another FreeBSD server. I am not in a position to replace the core switch, add additional switches, etc. I cannot use a bridge interface on my ix0 and ix1 connections, since the ix0 interface is acting as the parent device for a number of VLAN's. In addition to acting as the parent interface for my VLAN's, ix0 is also configured to act as my primary untagged LAN uplink and has an IP address of 10.0.1.2/24 (with CARP running on 10.0.1.1/24). I've attempted to use the ether.bridge script to create a netgraph bridge, but the bridge only passes untagged traffic, no VLAN traffic passes over the netgraph bridge. I've attempted to configure the ix1 interface in a different FIB (after adding an IP address within the same subnet as ix0, 10.0.1.4/24), but I am unable to create the necessary pf rules to address the asymmetrical routing issues (two interfaces in the same network address space attempting to pass traffic back and forth to one another). As a result, I cannot ping the firewall from one of the jails and vise-versa. I am not in a position to re-IP the jails to use a different network subnet, I need them to remain on the 10.0.1.0/24 network. I've also attempted to configure the two ports on a Chelsio T6225 to act as a small switch, but that was a lost cause. I am hoping someone is able to provide some insight as to how to achieve my desired outcome without needing to migrate to another operating system (Linux or OpenBSD). Any assistance is appreciated.

18.08.2025 19:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Building ports in a jail with different host version. Greetings! My English is not very good, excuse me if I said something wrong... I have Raspberry Pi 5 with FreeBSD 14.3-STABLE and jail with FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p10 I need to build some ports in this jail, but I'm running into a weird problem... By first, I tried to set variable "UNAME_r" to 13.2-RELEASE-p10 for allow ports to build. Second, I set parameter "osrelease" in jail.conf But both solutions led to a strange result: in perl, all variables defining an osrelease contain quotes, and Perl (or make?) treats them as part of a variable. For example: The file /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.36/mach/Errno.pm contains the following lines: Perl: "$Config{'archname'}-$Config{'osvers'}" eq "arm64-freebsd-thread-multi-"13.2-release-p10"" or die "Errno architecture (arm64-freebsd-thread-multi-"13.2-release-p10") does not match executable architecture ($Config{'archname'}-$Config{'osvers'})"; On the host system same strings looks like: Perl: "$Config{'archname'}-$Config{'osvers'}" eq "arm64-freebsd-thread-multi-14.3-stable" or die "Errno architecture (arm64-freebsd-thread-multi-14.3-stable) does not match executable architecture ($Config{'archname'}-$Config{'osvers'})"; I'm stuck, googling this problem but can't find any clue about such behavior... How can I remove quotes from variable or tell to perl (or make?) to ignore them... I tried to install FreeBSD 13.2 to my Raspberry Pi 5, but this system can't detect nvme drive and i was forced to install freebsd 14... But I need to build ports exactly for 13.2, I use my Raspberry Pi 5 as build machine... Thanks in advance!

18.08.2025 19:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Valgrind feature poll Some explanation of these choices. Feature| Difficulty| Description ---|---|--- lldb server| unknown, but probably a large project| currently Valgrind only has support for gdb server (with the bundled vgdb tool). lldb server is possible but difficult to set up and only for lldb experts fair scheduler| easy| the default Valgrind scheduler will context switch at each syscall or 100k basic blocks, but the switching is just the luck of the draw. Linux (only) has a futex based fair scheduler that it supposed to be more like a real OS scheduler LLVM openMP| unknown, but probably a large project| DRD and Helgrind only understand pthread and Qt threading interfaces. GNU OpenMP can be built using pthread. Valgrind does not understand LLVM OpenMP synchronisation at all, making it impossible to use with DRD or Helgrind. ioctls| large, needs a lot of investigation to get a list of all ioctls and all of their inputs and outputs| only a few have proper coverage, most just default to the read/write encoding of the ioctl core dumps| medium| Valgrind will dump a FreeBSD core file but the internals are not correct and neigher gdb nor lldb will be able to do anything with it riscv64/arm7 ports| medium| arm64 took about 1 month

18.08.2025 19:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OpenSMTPD 7.6.0 wont start after upgrade - (FreeBSD 14.2) Hi I updated my mailserver to OpenSMTPD 7.6.0 thats installed inside a ezjail and after a restart smtpd wont start. smtpd -d info: OpenSMTPD 7.6.0-portable starting passwd[77606]: warn: table-api: imsg_get: Result too large lookup: table-proc: unexpected EOF during handshake smtpd: process lka socket closed I tried to uninstall and then reinstall all packages that I know of related to opensmtpd: opensmtpd opensmtpd-extras-table-passwd opensmtpd-filter-rspamd opensmtpd-filter-senderscore When searching online the only thing I found that looks similar is a mailing list from openbsd: ### Re: SMTPD start failed - table-proc: unexpected EOF during handshake www.mail-archive.com But this thread mentions "opensmtpd-table-passwd package" but I cant find anything like that when searching "pkg search table-passwd" but opensmtpd-extras-table-passwd. I probably missed something when doing the upgrade /Lartten

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Which FreeBSD source branch are you tracking? The title says it.

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Cannot install pytorch & freecad They conflict. Any solution ?

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pcengines replacement I am looking for a replacement for my pcengines apu2 ... while it is an almost perfect fit for my needs, I need a somewhat faster device. Faster in the sense of I/O. I use it as firewall and storage system (via sshfs) - with 2 USB enclosures with 4x12TB HDD each. Accessing the USB disks is at about ~ 15-25MB/sec (compared to my AMD Ryzen system with ~ 150MB/sec) ... ~ 50MB/sec should be enough. My requirements are: * fanless * ECC memory * CPU with AES * low power consumption (< 8W idle, <20W on average usage) * 2 ethernet interfaces, 3 would be ideal * at least 2 USB 3.0 ports, 3 would be ideal * smallish in size any suggestions?

18.08.2025 13:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Brocade-825 driver search Hi. I have a Brocade-825 - HP 82B PCIe 8Gb FC dual-port HBA (part number AP770A). FreeBSD detects it as Cavium/Qlogic 425/825/42B/82B PCIe dual port FC HBA. Unfortunately, I can't find the appropriate driver. BR-825 is not in the list of supported by the isp driver. Can anyone help me choose the appropriate driver?

18.08.2025 13:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Debian 13.0.0 Guest via Bhyve: Unable to get GRUB working Hi, I wanted to give FreeBSD a shot, but also to have Debian 13.0.0 as a virtual machine using `bhyve`, especially the wrapper support scripts `vm-bhyve` to simplify the setup. Following the steps of the tutorial of `vm-bhyve` (and the other resources linked below), I ended up with a Grub based installation of Debian. The installation completes, but drops to the grub shell indicating that the linux kernel image cannot be found. I am well aware, that I am not the first having this problem, as some other posts in this forum clearly indicate. After trying the following suggested solution to configure GRUB to find the correct kernel image and load it, I am stuck at grub unable to find any usable filesystem. Code: (hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos1) (host) Trying to read any filesystem always results in "unknown filesystem", such that `set root=/...` is not possible. My current config includes System: FreeBSD: 14 (latest stable) Guest OS: Debian 13.0.0 packages installed: `bhyve`, `vm-bhyve`, `grub2-bhyve`, `bhyve-firmware` The configuration i am using for the Debian VM is as follows: Code: cpu=4 memory=8G network0_type="virtio-blk" network0_switch="public" disk0_type="virtio-blk" disk0_name="disk0.img" # I assume this refers to (hd0,1) grub_run_partition="1" grub_run_dir="/boot/grub" # I think thats not necessary in textmode # as bhyve would default to that graphics="no" uuid="..." network0_mac="..." I have a strong suspicion, that something is off with the disk. Booting again with the installer iso and executing a shell, I can clearly see the boot directory. While i have not tried to modify the boot environment from the rescue shell itself, I wonder if there is straight way to install Debian/Linux and make booting it via Grub or better UEFI. **UEFI** Put here just for reference, in case UEFI is recommended for installation. Setting the configuration to use `loader="uefi"` results in displaying the selection screen of the installer ( "install" "graphical install" ...), but after that the screen blanks. I am working in text mode only and i am not using any x11 or other graphical environment. **Resources** Following resources were of no help either, unfortunately: - https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/blob/master/sample-templates/config.sample - https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/virtualization/#virtualization-host-bhyve - https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve/wiki/Configuring-Grub-Guests - https://blahg.josefsipek.net/?p=595 - https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-to-boot-debian-in-efi-mode-using-bhyve.81520/ - https://npulse.net/en/blog/125-bhyve-uefi-drops-into-efi-shell-linux-wont-boot-easy-workaround - https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve - https://www.duskopijetlovic.com/freebsd/bhyve/virtualization/2022/02/06/freebsd-vm-bhyve.html - https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-linux-vm-on-freebsd-using-bhyve-and-zfs/ - https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/freebsd-bhyve-uefi-shell - https://gist.github.com/ianthetechie/4e1e0b4cb48981629e5ad0e2cdd4e5ec - https://i-bsd.com/freebsd-vm-bhyve-linux/

18.08.2025 11:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Valuable News – 2025/08/18 Original article here. Consider this when replying. **FreeBSD, The FreeBSD Foundation, and The FreeBSD Forums are not associated with the content of this article.**

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