Re: windows 7 guest under bhyve (UEFI) doesn't start with FreeBSD 15

Wojciech Puchar <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:20:33 +0200 (CEST)
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> There's one way to work around the problem, which is what I did, and
> there are two ways to fix it.
>
> 1. Reinstall the guest.

No way. 20 VMs with heavily modified windows 7.

>
> 2. By editing a file or few files, you can use the old guest with the
> new firmware. If I recall correctly, the steps to follow were described
> somewhere in the https://bbs.archlinux.org/ forums. It’s probably
> different on FreeBSD, but that should give you the keywords you need to
> search for a solution that works on FreeBSD, even without the thread,
> which I couldn't find. IIRC you need to search for edk2 m2 (milestone 2)
> vs m4 (milestone 4) and how to make it backwards compatible.
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