Bug 1997883

Summary: RFE: Prefer UEFI for new VMs
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Reporter: Neal Gompa <ngompa13>
Component: virt-managerAssignee: Virtualization Maintenance <virt-maint>
virt-manager sub component: GUI QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Status: CLOSED MIGRATED Docs Contact:
Severity: unspecified    
Priority: unspecified CC: berrange, bstinson, carl, crobinso, daltonminer, davide, dustymabe, extras-qa, fedora, jsuchane, juzhou, jwboyer, mxie, philip.wyett, pjones, sricharan.ramanujam, tyan, tzheng, virt-maint, vwu, xiaodwan
Version: CentOS StreamKeywords: FutureFeature, MigratedToJIRA, Triaged
Target Milestone: rcFlags: pm-rhel: mirror+
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Clone Of: 1997882 Environment:
Last Closed: 2023-06-30 18:36:54 UTC Type: Feature Request
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Description Neal Gompa 2021-08-26 01:23:27 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1997882 +++

Description of problem:
The Fedora Cloud WG recently changed to offering hybrid boot cloud images. This was done as the start of a longer-term effort to engage with the community and partners to boot Fedora images with UEFI. As part of this effort, we'd like to have the virt stack default to offering UEFI for VMs (with a CSM for BIOS backward compatibility if possible).

It would be appreciated if virt-manager defaulted to creating VMs with UEFI+CSM for "fedora", "rhel9", "unknown linux" and other similar things.

Additional info:
The full discussion about this is in the Fedora Cloud WG meeting logs here: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/fedora_cloud_meeting/fedora_cloud_meeting.2021-08-19-14.59.log.html
Comment 2 Neal Gompa 2021-08-26 01:59:14 UTC 
Here's the ticket for this in the Fedora Cloud WG tracker: https://pagure.io/cloud-sig/issue/345