DragonflyBSD on a VirtualBox guest

Sergey Zigachev s.zi at outlook.com
Sat Jan 11 21:08:43 PST 2025


> I booted from DragonFly-x86_64-20250110-DEV-v6.5.0.790.g935aa.iso in VirtualBox as a gust and then tried to install Xorg and then Mate Desktop.
> I, also, run
> *#kld i915*
> before running startx command and make sure that the i915 is loaded (Yellow line in the screenshot attachment)
> But, the mate desktop is still not loaded!
> 
> What should I do now?

i915 is a graphics driver in the _kernel_ for intel GPUs only. Since a VM doesn't have intel graphics card loading the driver has no effect.
Your best bet is to try and use scfb or vesa _xorg_ drivers. Install xf86-video-scfb and xf86-video-vesa packages and try running Xorg.
I've tested in a QEMU VM and it works without any extra configuration. Hope this helps.





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