bhyve How to run win7 on bhyve?

Meanwhile I gave up on Bhyve and switched to VirtualBox.

Will try to do some tests to compare performance difference. But, at least, I successfully installed Windows 2008 R2.
The same for Windows 11 (which requires TPM). The only issue is NVMe drives - it required some custom VM tuning to run:
VBoxManage setextradata <VM name> "VBoxInternal/Devices/nvme/0/Config/MsiXSupported" 0
VBoxManage setextradata <VM name> "VBoxInternal/Devices/nvme/0/Config/CtrlMemBufSize" 0

As a bonus - I'll be able to install Windows XP, because sometimes I need even such an old system. Even Windows 2000...
So I think I'll keep one system with VirtualBox for legacy stuff.
 
RUFUS configures the boot USB for either MBR or UEFI.

When it boots it checks bios for MBR ability then creates the MBR file system.

No version of windows thru win11 actually requires UEFI. I install Win11 on MBR just fine. I refuse to use UEFI unless MBR is not available. No security certificates, no secure boot and easy to repair. I don’t use large system volumes so UEFI / GPT not required.

I don’t use FBSD except as server not desktop or daily driver.
 
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