running FreePBX SNG7 Official Distro

[Victor Sudakov]

Rodney W. Grimes 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

My quick search turns up that it's there in the code but it is not
used, or it is not enabled by default, whatever (it's written in 
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=402022&sid=02333b87a8a2bba99383449fc08ca317#p402022 ) 

> 
> aka source code thet implements efivars stored in nvram.

Anyway, I could not find a file in my virtualbox directory which would
look like a storage with NVRAM data.

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