Add FreeBSD 13.1 support for Parallels 17

Were you able to run KDE or Gnome on a FreeBSD 13.1 VM? I completed a text install, everything runs fine. Installed xorg, sddm, and kde-baseapps (the kde5 full install metaport is not avaiiable for 13.1 on aarch64). Also included ums_load="YES" on loader.conf to get the mouse to work. The graphics login (sddm) works just fine, but then I get a black screen from KDE. Any suggestions?
 
I've found that FreeBSD 13.1 (I haven't tested other versions) doesn't recognize the USB mouse provided by Parallels (or Fusion even) in a way that makes it usable. While it does indeed appear as a device as reported by lsusb -v, it does not appear as a /dev/ums0 device in the OS. As such, I suspect you'll have trouble using anything GUI that needs a mouse.

What's not immediately obvious to me is what about how the Parallels mouse causes /dev/ums0 to be skipped, but is present in things like UTM (which uses QEMU under the hood)
For example, lsusb on Parallels (not working):
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And Fusion (not working):
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And on UTM/QEMU (working):
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At a glance, it's not obvious to me what the difference is between the one working mouse and the two non-working ones.
 
Well I'll be! I thought that I had tried that before and it didn't work.
But indeed, with the above change, there is now a /dev/ums0 device, and it works just fine in xorg. Thanks!
 
WillD6 said:
Well I'll be! I thought that I had tried that before and it didn't work.
But indeed, with the above change, there is now a /dev/ums0 device, and it works just fine in xorg. Thanks!
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Glad it worked. You have to thank salvomic who came up with the solution. Which desktop are you running?
 
rrpalma said:
As salvomic showed me in another thread, you should include this to get your mouse working:

Code: 
# /boot/loader.conf
ums_load="YES"
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This has also put an end to my 3-hour struggle (FreeBSD 14-RELEASE aarch64 on M3 MBP). Thank you.
 
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