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

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thank you for help on priv.

On Fri, 10 Jul 2026, Mario Marietto wrote:

> ---> I don't know why anything older than Windows 10 might be a problem
> 
> maybe because the 64-bit version of Windows 7 includes some limited UEFI support, and for
> this reason, it might not work on all hardware. 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 12:38 PM Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> wrote:
>       On Fri, 2026-07-10 at 12:12 +0200, Mario Marietto wrote:
>       > I'm curious to try virtualizing Windows 7 with my implementation of
>       > qemu accelerated with bhyve. But why Windows 7 ? What's special about
>       > it ?
>
>       I don't know why anything older than Windows 10 might be a problem,
>       since I've never looked into it in depth, for my purposes, the effort
>       just didn't seem worth it. Of course, it’s worth noting that Microsoft
>       no longer supports anything older than Windows 10 at all, support for
>       Windows 10 has been reduced to a minimum, and only Windows 11 is still
>       properly supported. In my opinion, virtualization should be able to turn
>       things around here, if not, well, then that’s not so great.
>
>       Apparently, however, there are users who can successfully run Windows 7
>       guests on FreeBSD and Linux. Unfortunately, I am not one of them.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Mario.
> 
>
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