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Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting a guest with OVMF
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Laszlo Ersek |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting a guest with OVMF |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:26:50 +0200 |
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On 06/10/14 18:10, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 05:18:21PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> On 06/10/14 15:04, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
>>> Heya,
>>>
>>> Laszlo pointed out OVMF packages for Fedora from here[1]. I tried a
>>> simple test using this[2] by installing Fedora onto a USB stick.
>>>
>>> Once Fedora is installed on the USB stick (/dev/sdb), and I attempt to
>>> boot into the USB device as below, I get the Fedora serial console
>>> login prompt just fine through a QEMU vnc display:
>>>
>>> $ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -m 256 -bios \
>>> /usr/share/OVMF/OVMFX64.fd /dev/sdb)
>>>
>>>
>>> However, when I try with the below QEMU invocation, I get "Boot
>>> Failed. EFI Floppy":
>>>
>>> $ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -m 512 -nographic \
>>> -nodefconfig -nodefaults -serial stdio \
>>> -bios /usr/share/OVMF/OVMFX64.fd /dev/sdb
>>> Boot Failed. EFI Floppy
>>> Boot Failed. EFI Floppy 1
>>>
>>>
>>> Next, I tried booting into a Fedora disk image with the below QEMU
>>> invocation, and I get a UEFI interactive shell as below (after "Boot
>>> Failed. EFI Floppy"):
>>>
>>> $ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -m 512 -nographic \
>>> -nodefconfig -nodefaults -serial stdio -bios
>>> /usr/share/OVMF/OVMFX64.fd \
>>> -drive
>>> file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/Fedora-x86_64-20-20140407-sda.qcow2,if=ide,format=qcow2,cache=none
>>> UEFI Interactive Shell v2.0
>>> EDK II
>>> UEFI v2.40 (EDK II, 0x00010000)
>>> Mapping table
>>> BLK2: Alias(s):
>>> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x1)/Ata(0x0)
>>> BLK3: Alias(s):
>>>
>>> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x1)/Ata(0x0)/HD(1,MBR,0x00014C24,0x7A1,0x3FF83D)
>>> BLK0: Alias(s):
>>> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Floppy(0x0)
>>> BLK1: Alias(s):
>>> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Floppy(0x1)
>>>
>>> Press ESC in 1 seconds to skip startup.nsh or any other key to continue.
>>> Shell>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is this expected behavior?
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/bonzini/ovmf/fedora-20-x86_64/edk2-20140328svn15376-4.fc20/
>>> [2] http://people.freedesktop.org/~kay/installer/README
>>>
>>
>> Document [2] seems to imply that the disk image you write out to the USB
>> stick is a preinstalled (fixed media) Fedora system.
>
> The USB stick is created with Fedora Rawhide image using this
> script: http://people.freedesktop.org/~kay/installer/installer.sh
>
> $ sudo ./installer.sh /dev/sdb
>
> Then, invoke QEMU.
That script is exactly what I don't want to run :) Can you upload the
result somewhere?
> This is disk image #3:
>
>
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/20/Images/x86_64/Fedora-x86_64-20-20140407-sda.qcow2
OK, I'll try to check this out.
Thanks
Laszlo
Re: [Qemu-devel] Booting a guest with OVMF, Laszlo Ersek, 2014/06/11