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Test UEFI PXE in Virtual Box

Impossible

After this article https://c-nergy.be/blog/?p=13334arrow-up-right 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-pxebootarrow-up-right

But BIOS PXE is working.

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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-virtualboxarrow-up-right and here https://gist.github.com/sickbock/6b6a5df9a9d2286ebc1aarrow-up-right

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UEFI PXE in VMWare

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

  1. You need VMware Workstation player, download herearrow-up-right

  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

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

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