Virtualbox shows only 32-bit machine options

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com
Tue Jan 28 08:18:07 UTC 2020


On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 20:27:25 +0000, Manish Jain wrote:
>The second point where I had a doubt is this - all my installations 
>(Windows 10, FreeBSD, Linux) work with UEFI disabled. Could this be a 
>UEFI issue ? If yes, it might make things a touch easier for me.

AFAIK it isn't an issue. My Intel based Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H was set up
to "Legacy only", but Virtualbox always worked. One fine day I
experienced issues when booting a Linux from bare metal, while non of my
Linux multi-boot machine's Linux installs is set up for UEFI usage,
and FWIW all of my internal SSDs, as well as the external USB HDD backup
drives are using MBR. However, I migrated from the "Legacy only" setting
to "UEFI and Legacy" and got rid of the bizarre boot issues.


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