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

On Fri, 2026-07-10 at 10:20 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > 1. Reinstall the guest.
>=20
> No way. 20 VMs with heavily modified windows 7.

That's really annoying. I hope someone can give you some helpful advice.

I actually have Winows XP (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit), Windows 10 (64
bit), and Windows 11 (64 bit) guest on VirtualBox on an Arch Linux host,
among others, and I=E2=80=99ve actually already given up on the Windows XP =
and 7
guests. Those don't boot or run anymore either, sorry, I hadn=E2=80=99t tho=
ught
of that. Aside from the fact that bhyve and QUEMU/KVM are in many ways
superior to VirtualBox, VirtualBox does have some nice advantages,
though in my case, they didn't help with Windows XP and 7 either.
Luckily, I don't rely on software that no longer runs on newer Windows
versions than XP and 7. It's annoying when you have to rely on that kind
of software. I also have no idea if there's any layer to get that kind
of software to run on Windows 11.

Sorry, I actually focused on edk2 and didn't take Windows 7 into
account.