SOLVED Raspberry Pi Desktop VM Problem

[Alpha-Inc.]

Hello everybody,

I recently installed Raspberry Pi OS Desktop as a VM on my FreeNAS 11.2 System. After the Installation of the OS, I was stuck in the UEFI Shell (See #1).
Via the GUI i managed to boot the OS by selecting the grubx64.efi file from the disk but after I selected Debian I just get a blank screen (See #2).

So is this a bug in bhyve which has a workaround or is my CPU / System just not powerful enough to run the VM ? (I have a Intel Atom C3955 CPU with 128 Gigs of ECC RAM).

 

[sretalla]

So is this a bug in bhyve which has a workaround or is my CPU / System just not powerful enough to run the VM ?

Not so much a question of power as architecture.

The Pi OS variant of debian is compiled for ARM 32 or 64 bit chips.

I have a Intel Atom C3955 CPU

You are running an AMD 64 architecture, so can't run that OS as a result.

You might want to look into the DietPi project (https://dietpi.com/), which makes a variant available for AMD 64 architecture (under PC/VM in the downloads).

 

[Alpha-Inc.]

Okay I'l take a look at it, thanks.
But one question, if i might add this, the same ISO of Pi OS Desktop can be run in a VM on my Windows and macOS Machine perfectly fine. They also have x64-86 architecture, so why is it possible on there (Running VirtualBox)?

 

[sretalla]

the same ISO of Pi OS Desktop can be run in a VM on my Windows and macOS Machine perfectly fine. They also have x64-86 architecture, so why is it possible on there (Running VirtualBox)?

Depends on the hypervisor you're running as some can emulate other architectures.

I can find plenty of information suggesting that QEMU can do that, but I didn't find anything saying that VirtualBox has the capability... maybe it does.

Bhyve doesn't do anything fancy like that at this stage AFAIK.

 

[Alpha-Inc.]

Okay understood.
I tried to Use Debian (AMD64-Version) but I get the same blank screen as shown in Picture #2.

Via the Graphical Install I installed SSH so after I bypassed the EFI-Shell and the blank screen appears, I could ssh into my server so it is running but I don't have any picture. When manually installing Tightvnc via the SSH-Shell I only get a grey screen without anything. So maybe do I need a GPU for me to get a picture?

 

[sretalla]

So maybe do I need a GPU for me to get a picture?

I can't say for sure as all my systems have one, but there are others in the forum who run in serial console mode, so maybe they can share their experiences.