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Guide: Run FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon
Mac (MacBook Pro M1, etc) with HVF acceleration
(Hypervisor.framework)
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 Guide: Run FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon
Mac (MacBook Pro M1, etc) with HVF acceleration
(Hypervisor.framework)

FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64 boot in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac
screenshot

This guide was adapted from https://gist.github.com/niw/
e4313b9c14e968764a52375da41b4278#running-ubuntu-server-for-arm64

 Running FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64

 1. Install Xcode from App Store or install Command Line Tools on
    your Mac running on Apple Silicon.

    xcode-select --install

 2. Install Homebrew and QEMU.

    https://brew.sh/

    brew install qemu

    rehash

    qemu-system-aarch64 --version

    QEMU emulator version 7.0.0
    Copyright (c) 2003-2022 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers

 3. Download pre-build EDK II OVMF EFI image for QEMU.

    This EFI image is built from stable202011 tag with additional
    resolutions in QemuRamfb.c.

    https://gist.github.com/niw/4f1f9bb572f40d406866f23b3127919b/raw/
    f546faea68f4149c06cca88fa67ace07a3758268/
    QEMU_EFI-cb438b9-edk2-stable202011-with-extra-resolutions.tar.gz

    To build it from the source code for adding more resolutions, see
    the following section.

 4. Prepare pflash for non-volatile variable store, such as screen
    resolution.

    mkdir ~/qemu-vm/
    cd ~/qemu-vm/
    tar xvf ~/Downloads/QEMU_EFI-cb438b9-edk2-stable202011-with-extra-resolutions.tar.gz
    dd if=/dev/zero of=pflash0.img bs=1m count=64
    dd if=/dev/zero of=pflash1.img bs=1m count=64
    dd if=QEMU_EFI.fd of=pflash0.img conv=notrunc
    dd if=QEMU_VARS.fd of=pflash1.img conv=notrunc

      + This step is optional, you can use -bios QEMU_EFI.fd instead
        of -drive ...if=pflash lines in the next step, but in that
        case, any changes in EFI will not be persistent.
 5. Download FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64 raw VM image
    xz-compressed file

    https://ftp2.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/VM-IMAGES/
    13.1-RELEASE/aarch64/Latest/
    FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64.raw.xz

    (See https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/mirrors/ for a
    list of mirrors to choose from.)

 6. Decompress xz-compressed file, keeping a copy of the original
    compressed file

    Keeping a copy of the original file is convenient because then
    you can use it if you want to create additional VMs later. Just
    be careful not to overwrite the image of your first VM when you
    want to make a second VM though :P

    mv ~/Downloads/FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64.raw.xz .
    unxz -k FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64.raw.xz

 7. Run your FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64 VM

    ~/src/qemu/build/qemu-system-aarch64 \
      -M virt \
      -accel hvf \
      -cpu host \
      -smp 4 \
      -m 4096 \
      -drive file=pflash0.img,format=raw,if=pflash,readonly=on \
      -drive file=pflash1.img,format=raw,if=pflash \
      -device virtio-gpu-pci \
      -display default,show-cursor=on \
      -device qemu-xhci \
      -device usb-kbd \
      -device usb-tablet \
      -device intel-hda \
      -device hda-duplex \
      -drive file=FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64.raw,format=raw,if=virtio,cache=writethrough \
      -nographic \
      -serial mon:stdio

A screenshot of FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64 console in QEMU on
Apple Silicon Mac, showing the output of uname -a Another screenshot
of FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64 console in QEMU on Apple Silicon
Mac, this time showing that networking is working and is able to
connect over HTTP to the website www.example.com

 sysbench CPU benchmark comparison

 Running natively in macOS Monterey Version 12.5 (21G72) on MacBook
Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020)

(Installed via Homebrew.)

Events per second: 25,445,903.16 or ~25.4 Mio events/sec

sysbench cpu --threads=2 run

sysbench 1.0.20 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)

Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 2
Initializing random number generator from current time


Prime numbers limit: 10000

Initializing worker threads...

Threads started!

CPU speed:
    events per second: 25445903.16

General statistics:
    total time:                          10.0000s
    total number of events:              254468472

Latency (ms):
         min:                                    0.00
         avg:                                    0.00
         max:                                    0.12
         95th percentile:                        0.00
         sum:                                 8916.15

Threads fairness:
    events (avg/stddev):           127234236.0000/15768.00
    execution time (avg/stddev):   4.4581/0.00

 Running in FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64 in QEMU on MacBook Pro
(13-inch, M1, 2020)

(Installed via FreeBSD ports.)

Events per second: 15,467,914.47 or ~15.5 Mio events/sec

sysbench cpu --threads=2 run

sysbench 1.0.20 (using system LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3)

Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 2
Initializing random number generator from current time


Prime numbers limit: 10000

Initializing worker threads...

Threads started!

CPU speed:
    events per second: 15467914.47

General statistics:
    total time:                          10.0003s
    total number of events:              154689213

Latency (ms):
         min:                                    0.00
         avg:                                    0.00
         max:                                    0.21
         95th percentile:                        0.00
         sum:                                 5684.03

Threads fairness:
    events (avg/stddev):           77344606.5000/169564.50
    execution time (avg/stddev):   2.8420/0.00

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BrettDong commented Feb 11, 2021

DNS is working but ping gives weird result:
Ying Mu Jie Tu  2021-02-11 Xia Wu 4 52 46

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BrettDong commented Feb 11, 2021

Probably this is related(?): https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/
show_bug.cgi?id=237441

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felipedbene commented Feb 13, 2021

I have one of these running in a actual nano pi r2s but the problem
is that they only way I can reach it is using ssh but i dunno the
image's default user and password, does anybody know it, by any
chance?

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BrettDong commented Feb 13, 2021

Username is root and there is no password.

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BrettDong commented Mar 20, 2021

Good news for everyone! There is some update in https://
bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237441 regarding the
network issue:

    It appears this is a libslirp issue on macOS.
    Rebuilding QEMU with slirp updated to include https://
    gitlab.freedesktop.org/slirp/libslirp/-/commit/
    7271345efe182199acaeae602cb78a94a7c6dc9d fixes this issue for me.
    See also https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/slirp/libslirp/-/issues/
    35
    I've filed Homebrew/homebrew-core#73517

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@BrettDong

        I've filed Homebrew/homebrew-core#73517

I tried to build qemu with the most recent hvf patches now and at the
same time specifying --enable-slirp=system when running configure.

But I am still getting the same kind of errors inside of the FreeBSD
VM when I try to ping 1.1.1.1.

Is there something else one needed to do in order to fix this issue
that I missed? My homebrew installed libslirp is version 4.6.1 so it
should have the patch.

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