Hi all, > Am 23.03.2018 um 14:19 schrieb Matt Churchyard <[email protected]>: > The original reason for null.iso was due to notes on the bhyve wiki > https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve/Windows > > " The install.iso is only required for the first boot of Windows Server and > must be removed from the bhyve command after the first boot. Desktop editions > of Windows require that a null install.iso file remains and it can be created > with touch install.iso" > > At the time the UEFI support was primarily used for loading Windows guests, > and some desktop versions apparently needed an empty iso file to boot. I was > not able to verify which guests needed this file and so it was supplied to > all, as it seemed to have no ill effects on the server versions of Windows I > was testing with.
this looks like a piece of outdated folklore to me. At least all versions from Windows 7 SP1 onwards boot from CD into a dialog reading like "press a key to boot from CD" and fail over to the hard disk if you don't. So the installation continues as it should. I installed Windows 7 and 10 numerous times and never had to use that "null.iso" hack. Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Kaiserallee 13a Tel.: 0721 9109-0 Fax: -100 76133 Karlsruhe [email protected] http://punkt.de AG Mannheim 108285 Gf: Juergen Egeling _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
