On 08/13/2014 05:33 PM, Dan Mossor wrote:
I realize there may be licensing issues with packaging OVMF directly
with
libvirt and virt-manager, but at the very least could the /domain/os/loader
element be exposed in virt-manager or virt-install for those of us that can
utilize OVMF (or other custom firmwares)?
virt-install can set loader, with --boot loader=FOO. You can use the virt-xml
tool to alter that for an existing VM.
virt-manager support is actively being looked at, but there's more to it than
just exposing the loader value in the UI.
Is there another UEFI option that is being considered/worked on by
the libvirt
camp? UEFI is becoming the standard, and it would be nice to have a native
virtualization platform that could provide that emulation.
Reference:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/OVMF#Using_the_firmware_image_with_libvirt
Integrating this stuff correctly is under active development at multiple
layers of the stack, for example there were additional libvirt patches posted
today. So it's definitely on the radar
- Cole