FreeBSD with UEFI in Oracle VirtualBox 6.1.18

After upgrading a test VM to 14.0-CURRENT this week, I was greeted with a large Terminus font.

FreeBSD with UEFI in Oracle VirtualBox 6.1.18 with large Terminus font

While quite suitable when teaching FreeBSD, I prefer the original, smaller font.

Adding this to /etc/rc.conf did the trick:

allscreens_flags="-f 8x16 vgarom-8x16.fnt"

If you don’t want to reboot right away, run this three-liner expressed in C Shell syntax:

foreach ttyv ( /dev/ttyv* )
vidcontrol -f 8x16 vgarom-8x16.fnt < $ttyv > $ttyv
end

The result speak for itself.

FreeBSD with UEFI in Oracle VirtualBox 6.1.18 with normal vgarom font