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Date:      Sat, 25 Jan 2014 11:20:28 -0800
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Nicolas de Bari Embriz Garcia Rojas <nbari@inbox.im>
Cc:        "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bhyve with Xorg/kde
Message-ID:  <52E40E7C.1050205@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <93902334-8299-43A1-80DE-F1944CA80783@inbox.im>
References:  <2EEDE84D-388C-441F-969E-F6DF87CFF7BE@inbox.im> <52E4065B.6000603@freebsd.org> <93902334-8299-43A1-80DE-F1944CA80783@inbox.im>

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Hi,

> I can run apps like, firefox, xterm, etc, but not a desktop.
>
> my idea was to use bhyve as a remote workstation  and be available to
> export the full environments (kde/xfce etc)

  I admit I've not tried this with a FreeBSD guest, but with an Ubuntu 
guest I was able to start KDE and send the display to a mac running X11. 
I also tried Xvnc on the Linux guest - this worked, but was a lot slower 
than remote X.

> how much helps adding a graphic card to the server and “share it”
> among the instances ?

  I'm not sure how that would work. It may be possible to use pass-thru 
for a graphics card to a single guest, but I don't think even that would 
work as expected due to the fixed <1MB VGA address space that can't be 
shared amongst guests/the host card.

 > can it be emulated ?

  There will be VGA emulation in bhyve at some point - don't know 
exactly then that will be.

later,

Peter.



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