maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 273560] sysutils/edk2: bhyve flavor causes windows VMs to fail to boot after update to 202308
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2023 10:59:22 UTC
Bugzilla Automation <bugzilla@FreeBSD.org> has asked freebsd-uboot (Nobody) <uboot@FreeBSD.org> for maintainer-feedback: Bug 273560: sysutils/edk2: bhyve flavor causes windows VMs to fail to boot after update to 202308 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=273560 --- Description --- Hi! First thanks for your work on this port. Unluckily after upgrading the bhyve flavor package to the latest version (202308), the Windows 10 Pro Virtual machines I have running under bhyve stopped working. They were crashing on boot with error 0xc0000225. I did blame windows for this, but I was also unable to boot the official windows 10 installation media to try recovery or a new installation. The installation media was showing a blue screen, 100% vcpu usage for while and then crashing. Googling around there were indications similar behaviour was showing up also on physical machines with buggy UEFI BIOSes. At this point I noticed the edk2 port provided UEFI firmware was recently updated. I have now reverted to the previous version (202202), grabbing the port before commit 8097dda40a03b8a27a1edf1f31a8af0455a52baf , and the windows VMs are now working fine again without need of any change. I think this regression should be investigated, at least. Maybe upstream already has a fix for this? If any further information is required please ask. Thanks in advance!