[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Support OVMF on aarch64 guests

[Cole Robinson]

On 11/19/2014 10:30 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> Currently, we are whitelisting architectures, that we know how to run
> OVMF on. So far, only x86_64 was enabled. However, looking at qemu
> code, the same commandline can be used to enable OVMF for aarch64.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> ---
>   src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
> index d2e6991..ca57e35 100644
> --- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
> +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
> @@ -7749,7 +7749,8 @@ qemuBuildDomainLoaderCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
>
>       case VIR_DOMAIN_LOADER_TYPE_PFLASH:
>           /* UEFI is supported only for x86_64 currently */
> -        if (def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_X86_64) {
> +        if (def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_X86_64 &&
> +            def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_AARCH64) {
>               virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED,
>                              _("pflash is not supported for %s guest architecture"),
>                              virArchToString(def->os.arch));
>

Please add armv7hl as well, it should work completely identically (if/when we 
have an OS that supports it). ACK with that

(sorry for not following up on the original patch, still haven't gotten back 
to doing virt-* and aarch64 testing since KVM forum.

- Cole