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Has anyone successfully used these FreeBSD Project-provided virtual machine disk images?
FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-zfs.qcow2
FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-zfs.qcow2
FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-zfs-20260113-2b60e628d3b1-283055.qcow2
Not booting for me in QEMU. Respectively:
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Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on arm64 and x86.
https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2022/08/20/faster-zlib-deflate-decompression-on-the-apple-m1-and-x86/
saved 2022-08-20

Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on the Apple M1 (and x86)
DEFLATE is a relatively slow compression algorithm from 1991, which (along with its wrapper format, zlib) is incredibly widely used, for example in the PNG, Zip and Gzip file formats and the HTTP, …

I got most ARM64 machines working in QEMU. One exception:
FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-zfs-20260113-2b60e628d3b1-283055.qcow
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The Arm64 memory tagging extension in Linux.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/834289/a8f6c7c67ccca2c3/
saved 2020-10-19 https…

FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p3 on ARM64 in QEMU:
― SDDM, pictured, is barely usable.
After login to Plasma (X11), resolution is limited to 800 x 600.
How can I avoid the issue with SDDM?
Host: Kubuntu 25.10, Virtual Machine Manager with Ramfb for video. Guest: non-base packages from the latest repos.
Not reproducible with FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT on ARM64 in QEMU on the same host.
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Initial release done for the Sisyphus server, had to do it manually for the time being which is slightly annoying. I'll deal with the pipeline much later. Posted AMD64 and ARM64 binaries for Windows, Linux, And macOS. Got a lot done over the last few days, now time to relax...lol
https://git…

@… thanks. I was happy to use poudriere in the past but now, I have a Kubuntu host.
FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso
First attempt: I forgot the disclosure triangle when creating a new machine – allowed the wrong architecture. Oops.
A later attempt: the VM seemed to forget that the .iso had been specified.
Eve…

Windows ARM64 Internals: Deconstructing Pointer Authentication
https://www.preludesecurity.com/blog/windows-arm64-internals-deconstructing-pointer-authentication

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I ran the desktop script that's to be integrated with FreeBSD Installer.
Unfortunately: kde is currently not packaged for FreeBSD:15:latest on ARM64, so a change to quarterly was required.
The script installed two packages from quarterly (alongside previously installed packages from latest):
― lang/lua54
― multimedia/wireplumber
The issue with SDDM persists.
I reverted to latest. pkg-upgrade(8) in progress …
Testing is painfully slow in emulation…

@… Wobei es da in den letzten Jahren schon nochmal ein paar Sprünge gab, aber halt nicht bei allen Herstellern.
4k-OLED-Panels in Laptops sehen schon echt _fantastisch_ aus. 5G Modems, die in der echten Welt 1000 MBit/s aus dem Stand mitten in der Pampa hinlegen, 8 TB große SSDs oder die Performance und Effizienz von arm64 (z.B. Apple Silicon oder Qualcomm X E…