On 07/13/2016 03:14 PM, Anders Pitman wrote: > On Ubuntu 16.04 you end up with: > > /usr/share/qemu/OVMF.fd > /usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd > /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.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. > Yeah that's strange... probably some custom patch on the ubuntu side. > 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? > Personally I recommend Fedora, I think it's the distro that the largest chunk of virt stack development is performed on. - Cole > //anders > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Cole Robinson <crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx > <mailto: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 > > _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
