On Ubuntu 16.04 you end up with:
/usr/share/qemu/OVMF.fd
/usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_VARS.fd
One of the OVMF.fd's is a link to the other but I don't recall which (I wiped the drive and installed Windows 10 for now. Have a new drive on the way to try kvm again).
I know for sure virt-manager 0.9.5 had a "Firmware" dropdown during installation that allowed the selection of UEFI, and I'm pretty sure it worked.
On a related note, is there a recommended platform for running kvm with the features I'm trying to get working? A lot of people seem to be using Arch and maybe Fedora. I would be fine with that, but I'm a little concerned about stability. The host will only be used for VM hosting purposes, so I really only care about virtualization features and stability. I can use guests if I need other specific software. So I guess my question is what's the best distro for keeping up with important kvm features but still being relatively stable?
//anders
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Cole Robinson <crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 07/08/2016 10:05 PM, Anders Pitman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My host machine is running Ubuntu 16.04 with libvirt 1.3.1. I've been
> administering my VMs using virt-manager over SSH from my laptop. I was using
> virt-manager 0.9.5, but noticed some discrepancies with most of the tutorials
> out there (host-passthrough wouldn't work) so downloaded 1.4. Ran into issues
> getting PyGobject 3 installed on my laptop (Ubuntu 14.04) so I stepped back to
> 1.3. This has been working well, but I noticed the option for the firmware
> dropdown where you can select UEFI isn't showing up anymore, and it's using
> SeaBIOS for all new VMs. I tried modifying /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf to make it
> point to OVMF_CODE.fd and OVMF_VARS.fd but that didn't help. Any ideas?
Do you know what paths the ubuntu packages store the ovmf/uefi binaries at? I
don't use ubuntu so I don't know off hand.
Was virt-manager 0.9.5 working with uefi? It shouldn't have, given how old
that is, but maybe ubuntu has custom patches or something
- Cole
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