FreeBSD under VMware ESXi ARM Fling

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 10:56 AM Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 02:19, Vincent Milum Jr <freebsd-arm at darkain.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > uhci for USB 2.0 is not enabled by default. Ensure your VM is initially
> set
> > up
> > for USB 3.1 so the virtual keyboard and mouse will function. This is easy
> > enough
> > to fix post install with: uhci_load="YES"
>
> We can definitely add this one to arm64 GENERIC. It looks like we've
> just faulted in the various *HCI USB interfaces as platforms with
> support appeared.
>
> > ums is the same as above. ESXi ARM uses USB instead of PS2 for the
> virtual
> > mouse, so add this post install if you want mouse support: ums_load="YES"
>
> ums is not included in amd64 GENERIC; it's presumably being
> automatically loaded when needed. Does this work here too?
>

It's getting loaded for me on my aarch64 server via devmatch.


> > vmxnet and pvscsi are not pre-compiled. However, they compile and operate
> > perfectly as expected without any modification on ARM.
>
> I've committed a change to build these as modules now. We can also add
> to GENERIC if necessary.
>

Yea, more modules is preferable, but  in GENERIC if that path doesn't work.

Warner