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

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Nov 19 16:13:21 UTC 2014


On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:40:09AM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> 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

Really ? I thought ARM7 world was going to use its legacy BIOS
approach forever, only AArch64 going for UEFI approach.

Regards,
Daniel
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