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KDE Plasma Wayland on FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT achieved in QEMU

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A user has successfully configured KDE Plasma with Wayland on FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT within a QEMU virtual machine using Virtual Machine Manager. This setup was previously problematic, with the user noting an inability to use Wayland on FreeBSD in VirtualBox or virt-manager. The success appears to be related to the pending merge of a virtio-gpu driver in the `drm-kmod` repository. AI

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KDE Plasma Wayland on FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT achieved in QEMU

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    Plasma (Wayland) on FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT in QEMU with Virtual Machine Manager … is this unusual? I was previously unable to use Wayland on FreeBSD in virt-manag

    Plasma (Wayland) on FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT in QEMU with Virtual Machine Manager … is this unusual? I was previously unable to use Wayland on FreeBSD in virt-manager (or VirtualBox). https:// github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/pu ll/517 is not yet merged: ― virtio-gpu: add driver on a Linu…

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