Re: [Xen-users] OVMF Network Boot

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 15:20 +0100, James Dingwall wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm volunteering some information about performing an EFI->iPXE->Ubuntu
> 14.04 network boot in an hvm with bios = 
> "ovmf".  I couldn't find much information about getting this working so
> perhaps it could be useful for other 
> people.  There are some manual steps required but I think a startup.nsh
> script could solve those.
> 
> Existing problems with Xen/OVMF:
>  * The emulated network card does not have an EFI compliant ROM.  (I tried 
> passing romfile= to the qemu process 
> but that didn't work so I believe in the same way that hvmloader copies the 
> ovmf image to memory it would need 
> to do the same for the option rom.)

AFAIK the "ROMs deployed by hvmloader" mode only applies when rombios
(together with qemu-trad) is in use.

For qemu-upsteam + seabios it is certainly the case that seabios deploys
the options ROMs out of the devices' ROM BARs (which is emulated by QEMU,
and effectively contains romfile=).

For qemu-upstream + ovmf I am reasonably sure it behaves like the seabios
case not the rombios case and I am 100% sure that it _ought_ behave like
the seabios case, so if it isn't then that is a bug.

tools/firmware/hvmloader/ovmf.c has ".load_roms = 0" so I think that aspect
is working as I expect. That's not to say there isn't something else wrong
with OVMF deploying ROMs, just that it isn't the case that hvmloader is (or
should be) doing it instead.



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