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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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --3974694515-1856919194-1783671634=:59611 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT > 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. --3974694515-1856919194-1783671634=:59611--