Hi Chuck,
I'm getting conflicting information and thought I'd ask here about guest disk images without UEFI.1. If bhyve can boot the image with uefi-csm, should I be able to get a graphical console? I tried: -s 6:0,fbuf,tcp=0.0.0.0:5900,vga=io VNC connects, but the screen is blank. I saw some mentions of vga=on, but that generates an error message.
The BIOS emulation in the EFI CSM code only implements a small subset of VGA calls - it may be possible that the bootloader for your guest goes outside of that.
2. Instead of using uefi-csm, can bhyve boot SeaBIOS? I've tried -l bootrom,/tmp/seabios/out/bios.bin but I'm not sure that is working.
I have heard of some work on SeaBIOS, but afaik those efforts never quite got it to work. It wants to see h/w that looks like what Qemu provides.
later, Peter.
