Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:57:20 +0300 From: Johannes Jost Meixner <xmj@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>, "Leo R. Lundgren" <leo@finalresort.org> Cc: virtualization@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Windows support status Message-ID: <55891160.2030502@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <55885E1D.1010402@freebsd.org> References: <E61207E0-6780-43FC-82B3-1330B318AEBB@finalresort.org> <55881E08.5010906@freebsd.org> <19CB2CC1-FB10-42CF-A10B-DACF009CC65F@finalresort.org> <55885E1D.1010402@freebsd.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Peter, Leo, On 06/22/2015 22:12, Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Leo, > >> Forgive my ignorance, but when you talk about the UEFI build I >> don't suppose you mean that one must run the UEFI "version" of >> FreeBSD, right? I assume you mean that bhyve is presenting UEFI >> to the guest. > > That's right. We have a custom build of Intel UEFI firmware that > gets placed into guest ROM space. This is different than the > previous approach of having external user-space loaders > (bhyveload/grub-bhyve). Cool! Does that UEFI Firmware come with a way to running very old things, e.g. DOS 6.2.2, Windows 3.11 or Windows 95? > >> Will one be able to run this on 10.1-RELEASE, or must one use >> 11-CURRENT? > > It'll be on 11-CURRENT initially and will be backported to > 10-STABLE. I don't know think it's going to make the 10.2 cutoff > :( I remember asking you in Ottawa about it, but forgot your answer. What's the timeline for bringing it into 11.0-CURRENT? > > later, > > Peter. - -- Johannes Meixner | FreeBSD Committer xmj@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~xmj -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJViRFZAAoJEPyeKTcbGw0LBgsH/ishP4gmsE1Mrbu9tmtsednz 84iYg8Nn4TfJ0bOR0kGjXl5CctcfNJR3eF1CJunJrnfgcdxVfghlXCs0Fu3wMs0p VrpqKQK+UHu88Fv9y7l0O1Ly+Acx6lr4lsXXUk2D9XpgivKwZw5rylxcOtu6YHlw 9d2l7KR062jMHiya0EKvtzqxS2e61I4JGTP2ygRgsQELo2bYcpVWt9BsTcNQdGvv hm9ynQqGk141x4kY+UJyag8UH9INfB7Fr+GfAYOIE2MQ/UgRWEEHW3v42T/djTuX EyQwRZllKYQlKp6p1vA2jSDW0eDlY2/BgZpZFHahghzn9pdUHE5cyMtV2hCz/Eg= =8Z0T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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