On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 08:39:50AM -0400, Jerry Geis
wrote:> I am trying to play with qemu uefi booting...
> I found the OVMF package and installed it.
>
> I added the "-bios /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.secboot.fd" to my
command line.
> when running it says cannot load
"/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.secboot.fd"
>
> The file is there. I'm trying this on CentOS 7.6
>
> How do I correctly boot UEFI with qemu ?
UEFI boot in qemu continues to be a tech preview[1] so it doesn't
really work that well. I was able to get C7 to boot with UEFI if a
downgraded the OVMF package to one from 7.3, but that seems pretty
dangerous, so I keep my VMs as BIOS boots for now.
1. RHEL7.6 Release Notes:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.6_release_notes/technology_previews_virtualization
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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>