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Re: [Xen-users] configure of OVMF on Debian/Ubuntu


  • To: Xen-users <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Mark Pryor <tlviewer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 18:23:31 +0000 (UTC)
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:24:42 +0000
  • List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xen.org>

I've got this solved now.
ovmf.git has been patched extensively as of Oct 12, so its better to build OVMF from source, rather than use the blob from Ubuntu/Debian repo (Dec 2014).

The TianoCore splash screen appears instantly now and the VM speeds are as expected, where a minimal C7 VM starts in 24s or less.

I now see consistent behavior and speed under EFI in all the dom0, RH clones and Debian type.




On Wednesday, November 4, 2015 12:21 PM, Mark Pryor <tlviewer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Experts,

I've got results with OVMF from source on Centos 7, and have a shiny new C7 VM installed on top of EFI, using
the compiled ovmf.bin

However Debian attempts with xen 4.6 are failing either with

1)    ./configure --enable-ovmf
or
2)    ./configure --with-system-ovmf=/usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd

I'm not sure if the 2nd version is correct. I used the path to the ovmf blob from repo
apt-get install ovmf

When the source build goes off, what does Xen do with that path? Does it write it into config or does
the build actually try to hook a blob from that path?

Is the --with-system-ovmf flag always required even when tools/firmware/ovmf-dir/Makefile is run?

PryMar56


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