Getting EFI (OVMF) into libvirt

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\ Finally it’s working like a charm - booting a VM with EFI (instead of a BIOS).\ \ lersek pointed me to a page describing how to test SecureBoot with Fedora this implies the usage of EFI. And that page contains a link to an rpm carrying the EFI payload. Awesome.\ \ After installing the RPM you only need to tell libvirt to use that bootloader instead of the default one.\ \ All you need to do:\

# Install a prerequirement
$ sudo dnf install seavgabios-bin ipxe-roms ipxe-roms-qemu

# Install OVMF
$ sudo rpm -ivh http://fedorapeople.org/~crobinso/\
    secureboot/edk2.manual-0-0.20130221.944c84a6.x86_64.rpm

# Create a VM pointing to OVMF
$ sudo virt-install --name f18-uefi \
                    --ram 2048 \
                    --boot loader=/usr/share/edk2.manual/\
                                  ovmf-x64/OVMF-pure-efi.fd \
                    --disk f18-uefi.qcow,format=qcow2,size=10 \
                    --os-variant fedora18 \
                    --cdrom /path/to/Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso

\ That’s it! I’m truly amazed.\ \ Btw.: oVirt Node can also be tested this way. Sadly it currently crashes under EFI.

::: {#footer} [ April 4th, 2013 3:58pm ]{#timestamp} [kvm]{.tag} [fedora]{.tag} [efi]{.tag} [qemu]{.tag} [node]{.tag} [libvirt]{.tag} :::