Windows support status

[Johannes Jost Meixner]

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Peter, Leo,

On 06/22/2015 22:12, Peter Grehan wrote:
> Hi Leo,
> 
>> Forgive my ignorance, but when you talk about the UEFI build I
>> don't suppose you mean that one must run the UEFI "version" of
>> FreeBSD, right? I assume you mean that bhyve is presenting UEFI
>> to the guest.
> 
> That's right. We have a custom build of Intel UEFI firmware that
> gets placed into guest ROM space. This is different than the
> previous approach of having external user-space loaders
> (bhyveload/grub-bhyve).

Cool! Does that UEFI Firmware come with a way to running very old
things, e.g. DOS 6.2.2, Windows 3.11 or Windows 95?
> 
>> Will one be able to run this on 10.1-RELEASE, or must one use 
>> 11-CURRENT?
> 
> It'll be on 11-CURRENT initially and will be backported to
> 10-STABLE. I don't know think it's going to make the 10.2 cutoff
> :(

I remember asking you in Ottawa about it, but forgot your answer.

What's the timeline for bringing it into 11.0-CURRENT?

> 
> later,
> 
> Peter.

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Johannes Meixner        | FreeBSD Committer
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