Better following a run of desktop-installer – following the hint at <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1qeztx1/comment/obd43wk/>.
Back In The Day - early/mid 90s - I saw #SCO (or possibly #Novell) demo a version of #Unixware on some funky PC hardware where you could add and remove physical CPUs and memory on the fly. Does anyone remember what that hardware was?
And does anyone know when this feature will be added to #QEMU? It's just that my #FreeBSD testing VM has just started swapping, and I'd like to allocate more memory without having to stop it.
More monkeying around with OpenBSD. I spent a bunch of time getting LXQt working but the themeing was taking too much time so I threw more ram at the VM and installed KDE. The goal was to learn about OpenBSD, not LXQT. Ha.
Lots of the standard apps are there in OpenBSD but I need to find out how to get Librewolf and Waterfox going. Having done zero research, I'm assuming I need to compile from source.
I saw an article out using "Molly" as an alternate Signal Messenger client (xn--gckvb8fzb.com/if-you-must-use-signal-use-molly/). May try it in the future.
The KDE Plasma version is 6.4.5. IIRC KDE is stopping X11 support so I will need to figure out something else I guess. I've seen threads about Wayland on OpenBSD but didn't go down the rabbit hole yet. What little I read implied not ready for prime time.
The VM feels pretty snappy even though the QEMU agent doesn't really help with video options. This is using the VGA driver setup to get a decent resolution.
I really need to get this Jeep back on the road. I miss it.
#OpenBSD #KDE #KDEPlasma #LXQt #VM #QEMU #Librewolf #Waterfox #X11 #Wayland #Signal
@almalinux You inspired me to a little #rust project: https://codeberg.org/fallbackerik/riscv-rust
Headless. Fast. Surgical. KVM is a battle-tested tool in the Architect's armory.
https://silentarchitect.org/2026/03/architects-kvm-manual.html
#kvm #qemu #hypervisor #virtualization #libvirt #virtinstall #architect
A couple of weeks ago I used #gemini to whip up a prototype of WFxT support for #qemu: https://patchew.org/QEMU/2026022412101[email protected]/
This week I posted my hand written series doing the same thing: https://patchew.org/QEMU/2026032013060[email protected]/
Compare and contrast the approaches. While #genai can get you a working prototype pretty quickly the result was hard to review and missed an important source of events as well as a sub-optimal implementation. This might not matter for one-shot code but for production it missed the mark.
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