FreeBSD 13.1: A VirtualBox Learning & Testing Environment!

[@reptilicusrex4748]

As an avid FreeBSD user, thanks, the content is much appreciated. The handiness of a functional mouse in a vt is indispensable.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Great to hear!, agreed w/ the mouse!

[@po3chleb3]

it's very helpfull for me. You install FreeBSD from point of view of Linux guy. I have not found vipw, visudo in FreeBSD handbook. I was surprised that it is available in bootonly ISO. Your configuration of Virtualbox it's very usefull. I finally found someone who knows about it and doesn't make another movie based on a handbook.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Glad it helped

[@59wargear]

Another excellent deep dive thoroughly enjoyed it lots of good information!

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

This video was born of my frustrations searching for hours and finding nothing about how to set a fixed resolution guest pre-install in VB. Had to dig deep in Oracles docs ;)

[@icyblue878]

Yay! More great content! Greetings and thank you Stephen!

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Really glad you like it! :)

[@alexsturm1799]

Thanks for the great video. I appreciate you sharing the details of your installation and your tricks.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Absolutely, no reason not to share! :)

[@123fourU]

Superb install howto guide Stephen, I was able to follow along the install guide and got it working 🙂. Another time sink for me lol. Good job as always.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

That's great to hear!

[@NOPerative]

Keep it coming. Fantastic video.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Will do, thanks for the view!

[@Tony-py1nh]

Great video. Any chance you could do a KVM/QEMU/KDE instruction video ?

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Thanks Tony! Have you seen kzbin.info/www/bejne/oausiIuamNd-a6s ? As you can probably tell, it was quite blurry a lot of the time, with low performance. Still working on figuring out BSD graphics on Linux KVM!

[@Tony-py1nh]

@@stephenstechtalks5377, Thanks for your quick response. I have watched the above mentioned video and found it very informational. By using your video and a video from another KZbin vlogger I was able to get FreeBSD with KDE running on KVM/QEMU. This was not an easy task due to video drivers for KVM/QEMU and mouse not working with xorg. Further research online lead me to using utouch-kmod & xf86-input-evdev and adding Input - EvTouch USB Graphics Tablet to Virt Manager to get mouse working properly. Then I used DRM KMod with rc.conf reference to kld_list=i915kms for graphics. This allowed me to get FreeBSD working at 1080p (even though I was hoping for 4K resolution) on KVM/QEMU and KDE. But as I mentioned this was not an easy task and I thought you might be able to provide us all with an easier method, or more new user friendly instruction video. BTW, I was able to get 4K resolution tweaking this video for VirtualBox. But, it is not stable and crashes. Regards, Tony

[@Alex-sn4ql]

Hi Stephen, great video. Are you by any chance a similar video for installing FreeBSD 13.1 in a KVM/QEMU VM? I share your frustration finding the correct settings getting it installed in a UEFI based VM with properly working X11.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Hi Alex, glad you like this one, and thanks for the suggestion! My prior BSD videos on the channel playlist are all on QEMU/KVM in case that is useful, and fixed resolutions are much easier however BSD drivers are non-existent afaik. :/

[@leighhorton2806]

Hi Stephen Freebsd 13.1 is presenting some PKG download problems. Kde5 repository faults have been fixed and libre Office still not available Apache open Office works. Also networking did not pick up the network card in a new AMD Radeon R 5. Also did not recognise GPU. An easy fix with NVIDIA and mode set. All working very well

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Thanks for sharing, glad it went well!

[@kdeuler]

Thanks Stephen. Have you tried configuring two monitors with FBSD?

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Unfortunately no - I use one big monitor to help with my old eyes. ;) Thanks for watching!

[@Jordan-hz1wr]

Love me some BSD!

[@sambrown8]

Good afternoon Stefan! I was unable to resize the display. I did everything according to your video.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

What happened? Sorry to hear it!

[@sambrown8]

@@stephenstechtalks5377 I use the mate desktop environment. I do everything as you have shown. However, after starting Xorg, an error appears.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Mate is a great DE - unfortunately I've not tested it with FreeBSD yet! Have you tried XFCE as in this video?

[@sambrown8]

@@stephenstechtalks5377 I haven't tried it yet. I think, according to your video, try to do it the way you have.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Good luck! :)

[@po3chleb3]

What determines that at system startup we have such a nice logo of FreeBSD in graphic mode? Second: I disable XDM, when I exit Xorg my desktop is black I can't see CLI. CLI exist and working.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

If the OS supports EFI mode, it can inject the nice logo on boot. :) Your CLI may be on a different virtual console - have you checked them? people.freebsd.org/~blackend/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/consoles.html Good luck!

[@po3chleb3]

@@stephenstechtalks5377 backgroud and text has the same color. but When I click to close VM window VirtualBox ask me what I want to do. In that moment I can see text in console.

[@stackerliew]

Instead of use vipw, you can use chsh command to change user's shell.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Indeed!

[@Nikolai508]

I believe the Playstation 4 and 5 consoles run on a modified version of FreeBSD.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

Some say the Switch as well!

[@brandonphilander661]

Thanks for another great video, please try bhyve for setting up virtual machines.

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

My hosts run Linux, but thanks for sharing - heard great things about this hypervisor! :)

[@po3chleb3]

FreeBSD it'OK

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

:)

[@po3chleb3]

@@stephenstechtalks5377 How you clear the CLI ? I know command 'clear' but you dont use it

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

I have a habit of using the ctrl-l key combo to clear - sorry I should have mentioned it in the video, keep forgetting lol...

[@Jordan-hz1wr]

Love me some BSD!

[@stephenstechtalks5377]

IKR? :)