bhyve uefi="csm"

Victor Sudakov vas at mpeks.tomsk.su
Mon Oct 22 17:27:02 UTC 2018


Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> > > Can you tell us a bit about your set up, like are you using helper scripts like libvirt?
>> > > To answer the question you asked when I run a vm with the CSM firmware it works for me.
>> >
>> > You should always be able to boot a vm that uses
>> > and boots with the non CSM uefi firmware with the
>> > CSM version of the firmware, failures may start
>> > to show up if your booting something that is
>> > either purely legacy, or efi aware but falls
>> > back to csm because it didnt like something.
>>
>> If my goal were to boot FreeDOS in bhyve, would that be ever possible?
>
>Today no, due to the fact we do not have a ATA/legacy
>emulation, but rather only ahci disk emultaion, though
>I would be wrong on that point if FreeDOS has an ahci
>disk driver.

According to http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#What_makes_FreeDOS_better.3F 
FreeDOS has "UDMA drivers for hard disks and DVD drives", is it not the thing? 

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