Re: Accessing a VMs GUI

On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 10:42 AM Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
wrote:

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


Hello Corvin,

I have upgraded to FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE  and I can confirm that my mouse
pointer is now working as expected.


-- 
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]