On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:40:31 -0400 Daniel Anderson <developm...@kd2ycu.com> wrote:
> > How are you accessing those VMs? You need some desktop PC or notebok > > for this, I think... which OS does it run? You can set there > > additional FreeBSD, either a VM or in dual boot mode… > > I run an M1 Macbook and SSH into my VMs. Support for M1 isn’t full > as far as I can tell, which is also why I would be interested in > helping as well…. > I don't know anything more specific, but there should be some technology allowing running x86 binaries on M1 macs... or maybe something like VirtualBox or QEMU exists as well. Or something specialized like Parallels desktop... Also there was some work done targetting Apple M1, probably something could be found in archive of freebsd-arm mailing list or in wiki. > > Using FreeBSD as standard desktop is often not easy for setup > > (depends on requirements), but helps greatly to understand the OS > > and various quirks/issues and brings more experiences with it. > > So I’ve run various Linux distributions as my main desktop for a long > time. At some point my workplace moved to macbooks for a variety of > reasons, but essentially I install homebrew, run X, and remote into > any VMs. I use Emacs + TRAMP to access files, and I’m really > comfortable on the command line. > > I’m mostly interested in the console and not anything graphical > (KDE/Gnome) > Well, maybe you could help with our ports collection, there are various applications ported for use with FreeBSD. For bug reports, we have tool called bugzilla (bugzilla.freebsd.org), maybe you can help with resolving them. That's another area. Regards, Milan
