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

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Wed Nov 19 16:33:31 UTC 2014


On 19.11.2014 16:40, 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
>
> (sorry for not following up on the original patch, still haven't gotten
> back to doing virt-* and aarch64 testing since KVM forum.
>
> - Cole

Thanks, fixed and pushed.

Michal




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