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

[Anders Pitman]

On Ubuntu 16.04 you end up with:

/usr/share/qemu/OVMF.fd
/usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd
/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd
/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_VARS.fd

One of the OVMF.fd's is a link to the other but I don't recall which (I
wiped the drive and installed Windows 10 for now. Have a new drive on the
way to try kvm again).

I know for sure virt-manager 0.9.5 had a "Firmware" dropdown during
installation that allowed the selection of UEFI, and I'm pretty sure it
worked.

On a related note, is there a recommended platform for running kvm with the
features I'm trying to get working? A lot of people seem to be using Arch
and maybe Fedora. I would be fine with that, but I'm a little concerned
about stability. The host will only be used for VM hosting purposes, so I
really only care about virtualization features and stability. I can use
guests if I need other specific software. So I guess my question is what's
the best distro for keeping up with important kvm features but still being
relatively stable?

//anders

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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