Hello John,

I'm a veteran (a passed user) of Qemu.

I go by memory: it seems to me that viogpu must be specified in the 
configuration
of the virtual machine...

Hope it is somewhat helpful.

-- Daniele Bonini

Oct 18, 2023 15:44:55 John Holland <johnbholl...@icloud.com>:

> Hello,
> I see 7.4 has been released and has the new viogpu(4) driver by joshua stein. 
> I am trying to use it in a VM created with UTM, a wrapper for QEMU that works 
> on M1 Macs. The virtual machine installs and starts up fine from the 
> install74.img mounted as a disk, but running startx/X/xenodm produces a black 
> screen.
> 
> in ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log.old I see the following:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> [   419.659] (EE) xf86OpenConsole: No console driver found
>         Supported drivers: wscons
>         Check your kernel's console driver configuration and /dev entries(EE) 
>  [   419.663] (EE)
> 
> 
> I am guessing creating an xorg.conf might help but I am not seeing anything 
> about how to specify viogpu (virtio-gpu?) for that. 
> 
> I see this in dmesg:
> 
> wsdisplay0 at viogpu0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation)
> wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (std, vt100 emulation)
> 
> 
> Is X11 possible in this setup?   It would let me run OpenBSD on a HiRes 
> laptop.
> 
> Thanks,
> John

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