Re: Running NetBSD as qemu guest on laptop, camouflaging as host

2023-03-22 Thread Michael Huff
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 3:27 AM Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > Just xrandr for me. > > I don't use vmware, but for virtualbox I have "vesa 0x160" added to /boot.cfg to the boot normally line: menu=Boot normally:vesa 0x160;rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot With that, I don't need to use xrandr and I

Re: Running NetBSD as qemu guest on laptop, camouflaging as host

2023-03-22 Thread Mayuresh
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 10:35:08AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > 1. On Linux host's X11 the screen is already rotated. Now use xrandr > newmode, addmode to add a vertical mode with X and Y values of available > modes just swapped. So far ok. But xrandr refuses to switch to this mode. The error for

Re: Running NetBSD as qemu guest on laptop, camouflaging as host

2023-03-22 Thread Mayuresh
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:06:14PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > Thanks. xrandr and some pulseaudio settings on host helped me solve both > the problems. I wish to use a vertical HDMI monitor with a qemu guest running NetBSD. I tried to set the resolution in 2 ways: 1. On Linux host's X11 the screen

Re: Running NetBSD as qemu guest on laptop, camouflaging as host

2023-03-22 Thread Mayuresh
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 11:26:42AM +, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > Just xrandr for me. Thanks. xrandr and some pulseaudio settings on host helped me solve both the problems. Afterwards firefox stopped crashing as well. videos play fine as well. Will try and use this as the default arrangement for

Re: Running NetBSD as qemu guest on laptop, camouflaging as host

2023-03-22 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 at 11:05, Mayuresh wrote: > > I'd like to run NetBSD on laptops, but lack of support for 2 things - Wifi > and touchpad have always kept me from doing so. WiFi is the problem for me; the touchpad functionality was sorted out for the one (older) laptop I have running

Re: Running NetBSD as qemu guest on laptop, camouflaging as host

2023-03-22 Thread Mayuresh
> run NetBSD as a guest OS, without must loss of performance, to work around *much

Running NetBSD as qemu guest on laptop, camouflaging as host

2023-03-22 Thread Mayuresh
I'd like to run NetBSD on laptops, but lack of support for 2 things - Wifi and touchpad have always kept me from doing so. With virtualization support in most laptop processors, it is possible to run NetBSD as a guest OS, without must loss of performance, to work around the above issues. So,