Re:_Proposal_—_Seamless_Windows_Application_Virtua lization_via_bhyve

From: Asiye Sarıyıldız <asiyee994_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:22:03 UTC
Honestly, I have to say my interest in this has grown a lot, I'm genuinely
impressed by what you've built. It's also reinforcing my own conviction
that this whole idea is worth pursuing.

8 Ağu 2026 Cmt 19:16 tarihinde Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> şunu
yazdı:

> Errata Corrige :
>
> Oh no. I've developed qemu accelerated with bhyve,so I can use more
> methods for having better graèhics. I'm also planning to port Looking Glass
> on FreeBSD. I can do it because some months ago I developed ivshmem plane
> *and bhyve/ vmm* that can accelerate qemu.
>
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2026 at 8:11 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> >Not anymore, I run modern windows games (i.e. Cyberpunk 2077) on FreeBSD
>> over Wine 11, it works >with native performance..
>>
>> How many games are you able to run on FreeBSD over Wine 11 with native
>> performances ?
>>
>> >which is not possible under Bhyve or VBox.
>>
>> Why not ? Bhyve does not offer native performances ?
>>
>>
>> >You probably noticed that Bhyve still uses VNC for a remote desktop and
>> that makes it even worse for >graphics / cad applications than VirtualBox
>> that at least offers direct rendering.
>>
>>
>> Oh no. I've developed qemu accelerated with bhyve,so I can use more
>> methods for having better graèhics. I'm also planning to port Looking Glass
>> on FreeBSD. I can do it because some months ago I developed an ivshmem
>> plane that can accelerate qemu.
>>
>> Mario.
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2026 at 6:57 PM Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2026 at 10:43 AM Asiye Sarıyıldız <asiyee994@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Sorry for the direct reply, loops back to the list. As you know, Wine
>>> can't actually run things like Adobe software, but what I have in mind
>>> similar to WSL2 is being able to run Windows applications seamlessly using
>>> bhyve.
>>> >
>>> > 8 Ağu 2026 Cmt 11:37 tarihinde Asiye Sarıyıldız <asiyee994@gmail.com>
>>> şunu yazdı:
>>> >>
>>> >> I know about Wine, but Wine tries to replicate Windows APIs which
>>> often causes compatibility bugs or performance overhead. (..)
>>>
>>> Not anymore, I run modern windows games (i.e. Cyberpunk 2077) on
>>> FreeBSD over Wine 11, it works with native performance.. which is not
>>> possible under Bhyve or VBox.
>>>
>>> > My idea with bhyve was closer to a lightweight virtualized Windows
>>> kernel operating in the background, where the GUI windows are seamlessly
>>> integrated into the FreeBSD desktop environment (like seamless mode in
>>> VirtualBox or WSLg in Linux). I thought bhyve could achieve better raw
>>> hardware compatibility for specific professional Windows apps. Example
>>> Adobe?.
>>>
>>> You probably noticed that Bhyve still uses VNC for a remote desktop
>>> and that makes it even worse for graphics / cad applications than
>>> VirtualBox that at least offers direct rendering.
>>>
>>> I would suggest looking at Bhyve and improve display (i.e. no latency
>>> + vulkan / opengl rendering) in the first place :-)
>>>
>>> --
>>> CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Mario.
>>
>
>
> --
> Mario.
>