Re: Imagefactory always uses uefi to create the vm for image creation

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On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 11:57 AM Peter Boy <pboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Does anyone know how I can configure ImageFactory / OZ to use a BIOS VM  for image generation? Unfortunately I haven't found any documentation on this.
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> For explanation:
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> ImageFactory  uses a temporary VM to create a virtual machine disk image.
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> At least since F36 it uses UEFI for this. If you want to create a biosboot image (which is the default in libvirt), this image cannot be booted in a UEFI VM. The build process either waits indefinitely for a UEFI compatible image or returns a non-bootable image.
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> This also happens when I use an old host that does not support UEFI at all.
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> At least with F34 this was different according to my memory.
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libvirt supports UEFI VMs just fine too. That said, you probably would
want to make it a hybrid boot system to support both.

You can see how it's done in Fedora Cloud.




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