bhyve How to run win7 on bhyve?

[Annalesa]

There is no port of edk2-bhyve-csm, so bios is not working.
I tried lots of ways like pe to run win7 on bhyve, but not working.

 

[xedos832]

Is it necessary to run Windows 7 with virtual bios or it could run with uefi option instead?

 

[hedwards]

Running it in bhyve should work, have you taken a look at: https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve/Windows ?

 

[vermaden]

How to run win7 on bhyve?​

Its covered here:
- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/freebsd-bhyve-virtualization/

 

[Annalesa]

Its covered here:
- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/freebsd-bhyve-virtualization/

I cant boot the install iso

 

[Annalesa]

Its covered here:
- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/freebsd-bhyve-virtualization/

I also tried installing it on pe by dism or winntsetup, but still not working

 

[Emrion]

I tried yesterday, just for fun, and found out that the fact you can or cannot boot depends on the version of edk2-bhyve.

The screencopy you post is what you get with the last version and I found no way to boot. There is no efi shell, but in the efi menu you can select the file efi/boot/bootx64.efi (in the iso) and try to boot on. Alas, that doesn't work. There is a problem with this file: like the firmware thinks it's not an efi program.

An earlier version of edk2-bhyve leads to the efi shell. There, you can execute bootx64.efi and Windows launches... Another version of edk2-bhyve boots automatically without manual intervention.

However, Windows starts but hangs on the animated logo and you never reach the installation part. I don't know why. Tried to change some bhyve settings, but to no avail.

 

[vermaden]

ISO not found?