Re: UEFI with Linux guests
George, I've had limited success in running Linux guests using UEFI. When using the NON-CSM firmware, I can manually edit the GRUB menu to force a serial console to be used. I can then boot into the install environment and get the distro installed to the hard disk. After installation is done, I can start the guest with UEFI firmware again and have a usable OS. There is a pretty major catch though, after I destroy the guest using bhyvectl, then try to boot it once more with UEFI, it will fail to boot correctly (hard drive error, if I recall). I never got as far as trying it out with the CSM firmware, though. I've tried this on a few different Linux "flavors" but I have not tried Arch specifically. I hope any of this helps! -Trent ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: UEFI with Linux guests
Trent, Thank you for the valuable feedback. Indeed I successfully run archlinux by using the UEFI binaries on the bhyve FAQ page and appending "console=ttyS0" to the boot option of GRUB. Regards, George On Wed, 2016-01-13 at 11:11 -0700, Trent Thompson wrote: > George, > > I've had limited success in running Linux guests using UEFI. When > using the NON-CSM firmware, I can manually edit the GRUB menu to > force a serial console to be used. > > I can then boot into the install environment and get the distro > installed to the hard disk. After installation is done, I can start > the guest with UEFI firmware again and have a usable OS. > There is a pretty major catch though, after I destroy the guest using > bhyvectl, then try to boot it once more with UEFI, it will fail to > boot correctly (hard drive error, if I recall). > > I never got as far as trying it out with the CSM firmware, though. > > I've tried this on a few different Linux "flavors" but I have not > tried Arch specifically. > > I hope any of this helps! > > -Trent > ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
UEFI with Linux guests
Hello, I'd like to ask whether UEFI is supported with Linux guests. I know it already works on HEAD with Windows guests. I tried to run Archlinux with the UEFI binaries supplied on the FAQ of Bhyve but it fails. Regards, George ___ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
