How to override VM UEFI boot in LXD 5.3 and use seabios?

[tomp (Thomas Parrott)]

There is the raw.qemu setting for passing command line options to qemu too, which may help.

There’s an example of setting the machine type here:

LXC VM running FreeBSD can't see hard disk

Hello, I have similar problem, not with pfSense, but Opnsense, family affair… lxc init opnsense --empty --vm -c limits.cpu=4 -c limits.memory=4GB -c security.secureboot=false echo -n '-boot menu=on -machine pc-q35-2.6 -device virtio-vga -vnc :2 -drive file=/home/user/OPNsense-20.7-OpenSSL-dvd-amd64.iso,index=0,media=cdrom,if=ide' | lxc config set opnsense raw.qemu - lxc start opnsense && lxc console opnsense And Error: Failed to run: /snap/lxd/current/bin/lxd forklimits limit=memlock:unlimit…

There’s also a comment about using a non-UEFI bios here:

LXC VM running FreeBSD can't see hard disk

You can’t. LXD only supports a modern Q35 layout with OVMF. Well, maybe you can try passing -bios through raw.qemu but I would expect other machine details to be incompatible with that. It’d be quite good if FreeBSD would behave on virtual UEFI systems though, do they have an open bug report for this?