FreeBSD 13.4 - Appears to work in App Store Edition - Apple Silicon

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computeronix

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FYI while FreeBSD 13.4 is not "officially" supported or listed in Guest edition for Parallels, Silicon - https://kb.parallels.com/en/124223

It appears to install with no issues (at least I have yet to find any).

Note: Parallels guest tools will not install (at least natively)

Just FYI

Parallels team - please review documentation and with engineering for listing FreeBSD 13.4 for potential support in Apple M-Series section for App Store edition.

Note: FreeBSD 14.x and higher does not work out of the box. Due to a new virtio_gpu added in FreeBSD - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi...opos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+14.0-RELEASE+and+Ports
The VM gets stuck on boot as a result of this driver
 
Actually I was able to get FreeBSD 14+ working in Parallels with Apple M2 as well using the setup above

The fix was using the Parallels Video over VirtIO GPU video adapter

Fix:
--Create Parallels VM (choose Other Linux, and select image - FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-bootonly.iso)
--Adjust settings as you please
--shutdown the VM, right-click the VM and click Show in Finder, and right-click the VM file, and click Show Package Contents
--edit the config.pvs using any text editor

Search for "VideoMemorySize" and then above it you will see the line "<Type>1</Type>, change this to <Type>0</Type> and then save the file and start the VM

FreeBSD should now run properly.

Thread here: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/...silicon-freebsd-14-stuck-on-virtio_gpu.96762/

Feel free to add support for FreeBSD 14 in Apple Silicon as well after review from the engineering side too - its working great
 
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