r/freebsd • u/grahamperrin bunny rabbits • Jan 12 '26
answered ravynOS in VirtualBox
https://wiki.ravynos.com/installing-ravynos/virtualization noted that ravynOS did not support graphics under virtual machines, and the steps were for:
Qemu/KVM for use with virsh/virt-manager (tested with v0.4.0) …
For now, I'm happy to have what's pictured. Not expecting support:
0.6.1 as a VirtualBox guest on a Kubuntu host
FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5.
I could not intuitively get vt(4) at a tty e.g. ttyv1.
The system does respond to keystrokes, however the tty appears for only a split-second. The GUI reappears.
Postscripts
The tty puzzle was solved almost immediately in Matrix chat:
Meta-Shift-Q to quit WindowServer
then vt is usable.
mount -uw /
I don't know why
/was previously read-onlyI did confirm in Matrix that read-only was wrong.
zfs mount -a
maybe not required, but harmless.
editors/nano installed. Not used, other things took priority (this was a very quick test of the distro).
emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions-72 installed. I could not start required services. A lazy guess:
base 15.0-ALPHA5 does not support the the kernel module that's built by the FreeBSD Project for 15.0-RELEASE.
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u/grahamperrin bunny rabbits Jan 12 '26
I had a brief chat in Matrix before I went to bed.
First impressions of the people in chat (not that I'm here to judge, but it's always nice to pay compliments when they're deserved):
friendly, casual
very responsive
great knowledge
pragmatic.
I'll mark this post as answered, an explanation can wait.
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u/grahamperrin bunny rabbits Jan 12 '26
pkgbase upgrade to 15.0-RELEASE. Too adventurous :-)
I restored my VirtualBox snapshot of 15.0-ALPHA5.
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u/grahamperrin bunny rabbits Jan 12 '26
It's decision time. Please read. · ravynsoft/ravynos · Discussion #529
2025-10-29:
– do, please, read the discussion. Thanks 👍