Saturday 19 October 2024


Working mouse in VNC with vm-bhyve on FreeBSD
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On FrreeBSD vm-bhyve is a great tool to create, install and manage
virtual machines.

vm-bhyve is designed to work with ZFS, which makes it very easy to
create new vm's, and make ZFS snapshots of those.

For a project I created a Ubuntu virtual machine with a graphical
desktop.

Mouse problem with VNC
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On FreeBSD the mouse is sometimes troublesome in VNC.
It behaves irratic, and some areas of the VM's display are
unreachable.

Go full screen and use an xhci mouse
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On my Thinkpad X270, I now have the following configuration
in .templates/ubuntu.conf:

   loader="uefi"
   cpu=1
   memory=4G
   graphics="yes"
   graphics_res="1920x1080"
   xhci_mouse="yes"
   network0_type="virtio-net"
   network0_switch="public"
   disk0_type="ahci-hd"
   disk0_name="disk0.img"

Note: the resolution "1920x1080" in this config is exactly the same
resolution of the display of the laptop.

With this setup, the mouse appears to work fine.

Happy vm-ing!





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