I installed a virtualbox 4.3.2 on a win7 x64 system (i5 3470, 16G memory)
Now, I want to install a win8 guest OS, and use EFI. I tried but always failed, not sure if virtualbox still doesn't support EFI for windows guest.
thx.
Will virtualbox support EFI installation of win8?
Re: Will virtualbox support EFI installation of win8?
I got somthing from user manual.
it seems that virtualbox still can't support EFI for windows. I wonder is there any plan to support EFI for windows? thx.
it seems that virtualbox still can't support EFI for windows. I wonder is there any plan to support EFI for windows? thx.
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mpack
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Re: Will virtualbox support EFI installation of win8?
Many people wonder that. However the devs rarely hint at future plans.
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Re: Will virtualbox support EFI installation of win8?
If I remember correctly, the EFI implementation is not complete, but they have enough to support Mac virtualization.
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Re: Will virtualbox support EFI installation of win8?
Works with Linux guests just fine.
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Re: Will virtualbox support EFI installation of win8?
Oops, it seems I wasn't remembering correctly. My bad.
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