Test UEFI PXE in Virtual Box

Impossible

After this article https://c-nergy.be/blog/?p=13334 I wanted to setup PXE in Virtual Box, because I don't like VMWare. I even do not know if they have a trial version - their website is confusing me. They have cloud-cloud-cloud solutions, but I just need very simple local virtual machine. That's it.

So.

I do not know how about you, but I was not able to set it up following this answer https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/369603/virtualbox-uefi-pxeboot

But BIOS PXE is working.

BIOS PXE in Virtual Box

mkdir -p /home/nikolay/.config/VirtualBox/TFTP
sudo pacman -S syslinux
cp /usr/lib/syslinux/bios/{pxelinux.0,ldlinux.c32,libcom32.c32,libutil.c32,vesamenu.c32} /home/nikolay/.config/VirtualBox/TFTP

mkdir -p /home/nikolay/.config/VirtualBox/TFTP/pxelinux.cfg
nano /home/nikolay/.config/VirtualBox/TFTP/pxelinux.cfg/default

Read more here https://serverfault.com/questions/617352/pxe-boot-with-virtualbox and here https://gist.github.com/sickbock/6b6a5df9a9d2286ebc1a

UEFI PXE in VMWare

How to test EFI files in Virtual Box? No way, use VMWare instead.

1. You need VMware Workstation player, download here

2. Install with sudo sh <blah-blah-blah>.bundle

3. Create a virtual machine

4. Close the player

5. Manually edit the *.vmx file, add

firmware="efi"
bios.bootdelay = 5000

1. Put your files on USB drive, wait for EFI shell and execute your EFI files from there