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Presumably the point is to run something that assumes/relies on UEFI (an OS or application) without having to run and trust the giant blob of low-quality code that is a typical hardware UEFI implementation.

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Sure, but we know that the OS they're asking about is Linux, and none of the major Linux distros require UEFI to boot.

I understood them to be talking about using Linux as the hypervisor that would emulate a UEFI environment, the guest OS might be something different.

Yup.

Nope.

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