[virt-tools-list] No UEFI option in virt-manager 1.3

[Cole Robinson]

On 07/08/2016 10:05 PM, Anders Pitman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My host machine is running Ubuntu 16.04 with libvirt 1.3.1. I've been
> administering my VMs using virt-manager over SSH from my laptop. I was using
> virt-manager 0.9.5, but noticed some discrepancies with most of the tutorials
> out there (host-passthrough wouldn't work) so downloaded 1.4. Ran into issues
> getting PyGobject 3 installed on my laptop (Ubuntu 14.04) so I stepped back to
> 1.3. This has been working well, but I noticed the option for the firmware
> dropdown where you can select UEFI isn't showing up anymore, and it's using
> SeaBIOS for all new VMs. I tried modifying /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf to make it
> point to OVMF_CODE.fd and OVMF_VARS.fd but that didn't help. Any ideas?

Do you know what paths the ubuntu packages store the ovmf/uefi binaries at? I
don't use ubuntu so I don't know off hand.

Was virt-manager 0.9.5 working with uefi? It shouldn't have, given how old
that is, but maybe ubuntu has custom patches or something

- Cole