running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > > 
> > > As I stated earlier bhyve is missing percistant efi variables,
> > > and that is most likely the reason that VirtualBox just works
> > > and bhyve does not.
> > > 
> > > Probably you well find in your VirtualBox directory a
> > > file that is used to store efivars, that is where the
> > 
> > I'll look into the VirtualBox directory tomorrow and report here. 
> 
> I searched through my disk and was unable to find a persistant efivars
> storage in my VirtualBox 6.0 installation. 
> 
> A Google search reveals some articles (rather dated I must admit)
> stating that VirtualBox does not support NVRAM emulation for storing efi
> variables: 
> 
> https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14279
> https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=61970 

My quick search turns up:
https://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Devices/EFI/DevEFI.cpp

aka source code thet implements efivars stored in nvram.

> they recommend using startup.nsh instead.  I wonder if bhyve's efi
> implementation supports startup.nsh.

I believe that is how the alternate boot selector someone
pointed at gets hooked in.

> Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
> 2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org