Bug 1754704 - VM with OVMF/Virtio-SCSI can't boot
Summary: VM with OVMF/Virtio-SCSI can't boot
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: edk2
Version: 30
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Paolo Bonzini
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2019-09-24 00:35 UTC by Kevin White
Modified: 2020-05-26 17:21 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-05-26 17:21:07 UTC
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Description Kevin White 2019-09-24 00:35:39 UTC
Description of problem:
I'm attempting to create a VM using Q35/OVMF and a qcow2 image as VirtIO-SCSI.  When this VM boots, I can install a Fedora 30 guest into it.  When it reboots, OVMF can't see the Virtio-SCSI device, and displays an error message that it cannot boot.

If I change the type of the block device to "VirtIO", it boots successfully.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
edk2-ovmf-20190501stable-2.fc30.noarch
qemu-3.1.1-2.fc30.x86_64
qemu-common-3.1.1-2.fc30.x86_64
qemu-guest-agent-3.1.1-2.fc30.x86_64
qemu-img-3.1.1-2.fc30.x86_64
qemu-kvm-3.1.1-2.fc30.x86_64
qemu-kvm-core-3.1.1-2.fc30.x86_64


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a fresh Fedora 30 Server on hardware.
2. dnf install @virtualization
3. virt-install --name f30_test --memory 2048 --vcpus 1 --pxe --os-type=Linux --os-variant=fedora30 --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/f30_test.img,bus=scsi,size=20 --network bridge:br0  --boot uefi
4. Install Fedora 30 Server, defaults
5. Reboot


Actual results:
Guest doesn't boot.  OVMF can't find the bootloader (or the disk, if you press F2 to go into OVMF's interface).  Says "BdsDxe: failed to load Boot0004 "Fedora" from HD0(1,GPT,GUID,0x800,0x64000)/\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi: Not Found".

Expected results:
Guest should boot.

Additional info:
If you change the type of the disk in the VM to Virtio, it will boot.  Which means the image exists, was installed, and is good.  OVMF just can't see it if the device is VirtIO-SCSI.

Comment 1 Kevin White 2019-10-02 03:53:49 UTC
Note: both in the steps to reproduce above, and in all of the tests below, I also did a "dnf update".

On older hosts, I needed to add --machine q35 to the virt-install line.

I tried the same process, but using CentOS 8.0 as the VM host (dnf install @virt).  The resulting guest _could_ boot.

I tried the same process, but using CentOS 7.7 as the VM host (yum groupinstall "Virtualization Host" / yum install OVMF).  To get q35 to work, you have to use the CentOS Virt SIG: "yum install centos-release-qemu-ev / yum install qemu-kvm".  The resulting guest _could_ boot.

I tried the same process, but using Fedora 29 Server as the VM Host.  The resulting guest _could not_ boot.

I tried the same process, but using Fedora 28 Server as the VM Host.  The resulting guest _could not_ boot.

I tried the same process, but using Fedora 27 Server as the VM Host.  The resulting guest _could not_ boot.

This makes me wonder if I'm doing something wrong, or _not_ doing something.  Fedora hosts don't seem to be able to boot UEFI guests with VirtIO SCSI block devices.  CentOS 8.0 (and CentOS 7.7 using the CentOS SIG's updated QEMU 2.12) can.

Is there something I'm not configuring in Fedora that is needed for this to work?

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2020-04-30 21:01:38 UTC
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Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 30 on 2020-05-26.
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Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2020-05-26 17:21:07 UTC
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