Re: [Qemu-discuss] Any trick to booting off a eufi USB flash drive?

[ToddAndMargo]

>     Hi All,
>
>     Fedora 28, x64
>
>     $ rpm -qa \*qemu-kvm\*
>     qemu-kvm-2.11.1-2.fc28.x86_64
>
>     I set up a VM to test bootable flash drives.  The
>     only ones it will boot are standard boot drives and
>     not eufi drives.
>
>     Is there any trick to booting off a eufi USB
>     flash drive?
>
>
>     Many thanks,


On 05/06/2018 11:26 PM, Pascal wrote:
> hi, install ovmf and start qemu with "-bios /path/to/uefi" parameter.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_UEFI_with_QEMU
> https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/How-to-run-OVMF
> etc...
>
> 2018-05-05 9:02 GMT+02:00 ToddAndMargo <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>>:

Hi Pascal,

I can boot off the Windows 10-1803 ISO.  I just can't
boot off my W10-1893 USB sticks (nativity, I can) or
my Fedora 28 USB Flash drive (again, nativity, I can).

Is this the ovmf you mean?

     $ rpm -qa \*ovmf\*
     edk2-ovmf-20171011git92d07e4-3.fc28.noarch

It is already installed and also the only one I could find:

     # dnf whatprovides ovmf\*
     Last metadata expiration check: 1:40:05 ago on Mon 07 May
     2018 01:10:35 PM PDT.
     edk2-qosb-20171011git92d07e4-7.fc28.noarch : Tool to
     enroll secureboot
     Repo        : updates
     Matched from:
     Filename    : /usr/bin/ovmf-vars-generator

I saw those links purpled out on my Firefox, so I
had visited them before and got confused.

So I am confused: how do I get "-bios /path/to/uefi" into
my XML file with virt-manager?

Thank you for helping me with this!

-T

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