Description of problem: Fedora 40’s edk2-ovmf-xen doesn’t boot the Fedora 40 ISO. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): edk2-20240813-1.fc40.src.rpm How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to boot a Xen VM with firmware set to /usr/share/edk2/xen/OVMF.fd. 2. Wait for output in the graphical console. Actual results: Nothing Expected results: Works with a UEFI-capable OS, such as Fedora 40. Additional info:
Is this a regression? Can you attach your guest configuration?
Regression: not sure, I didn’t check older versions. Guest configurations: I tried several configurations and was not able to get anything working. Do you have a working version?
this works for me: type = 'hvm' name = 'fedora-uefi-base' firmware = 'ovmf' vcpus = 2 memory = 4096 hdtype = 'ahci' disk = [ 'disk/fedora-uefi.qcow2,qcow2,xvda,w', 'iso/Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-40-1.14.iso,raw,hdc:cdrom,r' ] vif = [ 'mac=78:00:75:65:66:69,bridge=br0' ] vga = 'stdvga' vnc = 1 vnclisten = '0.0.0.0'
Hmm, while debugging another issue I've noticed that this works: firmware = 'ovmf' but this does not: firmware = '/usr/share/edk2/xen/OVMF.fd' My naive expectation is that the former is just a shortcut for the latter, but apparently that is not the case ... Michael? While being at it: Does the libvirt xen driver support using ovmf? https://libvirt.org/drvxen.html has no hints to offer, and the libvirt import (virsh domxml-from-native xen-xl $config.xl) ignores the 'firmware' line.
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