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DomU Ubuntu install fails with uefi firmware option



Hi All,

On Ubuntu host, I installed xen with apt-get, and also able to install DomU Ubuntu with default seabios. But when I tried to use uefi (firmware="uefi" ) in domu config, domu ubuntu installation fails.  I also installed the ovmf package with apt-get, still not able to install Ubuntu DomU. 

Can someone help me what could be missing here.

Here are the commands i used:

#sudo apt update
#sudo apt-get install vim ssh git gcc g++ meson libelf-dev bison flex libselinux1-dev libxml2-dev ninja-build pkg-config libomxil-bellagio-dev liblz-dev zlib1g-dev python2 expat libexpat1-dev cmake g++ freeglut3-dev libvdpau-dev libxvmc-dev libva-dev libxrandr-dev libpciaccess-dev python3 python3-pip libdrm-dev libxdamage-dev libxcb-glx0-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-dri2-0-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libxcb-present-dev libxshmfence-dev libxxf86vm-dev build-essential bcc bin86 gawk bridge-utils iproute2 libcurl4 libcurl4-openssl-dev bzip2 kmod transfig tgif pkg-config texinfo texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended libpci-dev mercurial make gcc libc6-dev zlib1g-dev python2 python2-dev python3-twisted libncurses5-dev patch libvncserver-dev  libjpeg-dev python3-dev libglib2.0-dev libnl-3-dev libnl-cli-3-dev libnl-genl-3-dev libnl-route-3-dev libnl-idiag-3-dev libnl-xfrm-3-dev iasl libbz2-dev e2fslibs-dev git-core uuid-dev ocaml ocaml-findlib ocamlbuild libx11-dev  bison flex xz-utils libyajl-dev gettext libpixman-1-dev libaio-dev markdown pandoc iasl cmake figlet libc6-dev-i386 lzma lzma-dev liblzma-dev libsystemd-dev libzstd-dev ninja-build libepoxy-dev libgbm-dev libepoxy-dev libxen-dev libgtk-3-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev binutils gzip xzip bzip2 lzop lz4 lzma zstd xen-hypervisor-common libssl-dev nasm libegl-mesa0 libvulkan-dev libpulse-dev dh-make -y

#sudo apt-get install xen-hypervisor-amd64 xen-utils xen-tools xen-utils-common xenstore-utils;
#sudo apt install ovmf

with "xl create vm1.cfg",  the domu qemu window gets closed and pops up again continuously.

vm1.cfg file
-------------
type = "hvm"
name = "VM1"
memory = 4096
vcpus = 8
xen_platform_pci=1
vif = [ 'type=vif,bridge=xenbr0,model=virtio-net' ]
usb = 1
usbdevice=['tablet']
disk = [ 'tap:qcow2:/home/amd/u2204.qcow2,xvda,w','file:/home/amd/ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso,hdc,cdrom,r' ]
#disk = [ 'tap:qcow2:/home/amd/u2204.qcow2,xvda,w' ]
sdl = 1
vnc=1
firmware="uefi"

Thanks
Sudheer


 


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