FreeBSD in QEMU no longer able to switch from ttyv8 (e.g. SDDM) to vt at another tty
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No response to normal keyboard or mouse input at ttyv8, so login to a desktop environment is impossible.
Using Virtual Machine Manager to key Ctrl+Alt+F2 (pictured below) does not switch to ttyv1.
Weird.
This machine did previously work.
Comparison
I'm reminded of a bug that sometimes prevents use of vt(4) in VirtualBox, however I doubt that the root causes are the same:
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No response to normal keyboard or mouse input at ttyv8, so login to a desktop environment is impossible.
Using Virtual Machine Manager to key Ctrl+Alt+F2 (pictured below) does not switch to ttyv1.
Weird.
This machine did previously work.
Comparison
I'm reminded of a bug that sometimes prevents use of vt(4) in VirtualBox, however I doubt that the root causes are the same:
chvt(or whatever is analogous in bsdland) works as intended?
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