Bhyve UEFI VM on non-UEFI host

Neel Natu neelnatu at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 18:37:22 UTC 2015


> On Dec 21, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Evan Rowley <rowley.evan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I am interested in running bhyve VMs utilizing UEFI, as described in
> Peter's Windows guide: http://pr1ntf.xyz/windowsunderbhyve.html
> 
> The host machine will be an dual AMD Opteron 6166 HE processor, AMD SR5670
> / SP5100 chipset, Supermicro H8DGU-F motherboard. There is no UEFI support
> on this motherboard and the BIOS is standard AMI like the other Supermicro
> boards from this era.
> 
> Despite not having native UEFI support on the motherboard, will I still be
> able to use virtualized UEFI via bhyve, for booting Windows VMs?
> 

Yes, that's correct.

Best
Neel

> 
> 
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> - EJR
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