As said earlier, VirtualBox enables this setting automatically. Whether you want to use it for installing Windows, Ubuntu, Debian, Zorin OS, or anything else. That being said, if you want to UEFI, you have to use the EFI as well. In other terms, EFI is a storage partition that goes with UEFI or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. Talking about the EFI, it is a modern version of UEFI, and it helps you overcome the HDD limit of 2.2TB, which was there in UEFI in the initial days. In other words, BIOS and UEFI help users set up the computer hardware and tweak them as per requirements. UEFI or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface is the substitute to BIOS.

What is EFI? What is the difference between UEFI and EFI?īefore knowing about EFI, you must know about UEFI.

In such moments, you can follow this step-by-step guide to turn on EFI in VirtualBox virtual machine. Although VirtualBox enables this setting automatically when you choose the OS, it might not do that at times. If you want to use Windows 11 or any Linux distribution on VirtualBox, you must enable EFI or Extensible Firmware Interface.

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