Re: [Xen-users] status of guest/DomU UEFI + Grub support in Xen 4.6.1?

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 08:40:22AM -0800, suse.dev@xxxxxx wrote:
> fyi,
> 
> With
> 
>       bios = 'seabios'
> 
> on Guest launch, I get the attempt to 'Boot from ROM ... iPXE' biz, as 
> reported
> 
> Bith
> 
> -     bios = 'seabios'
> +     bios = 'ovmf'
> 

Use 

  $ xl dmesg | tail -n20

to see if there is anything relevant.

My guess is that you didn't enable OVMF when building Xen -- it is off
by default. You should see hvmloader complaining that it doesn't know
what ovmf is.

Wei.

> The guest doesn't even launch
> 
>       xl create -c arch.cfg
>               Parsing config from arch.cfg
>               got a tsc mode string: "default"
>               xenconsole: Could not open tty `/dev/pts/4': No such file or 
> directory
>               xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or 
> directory
>               libxl: error: libxl_exec.c:118:libxl_report_child_exitstatus: 
> console child [18653] exited with error status 2

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