[PATCH] qemuFirmwareFillDomain: Fill NVRAM template on migration too

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 19:28 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> In 8e1804f9f66 I've tried to fix the following use case: domain
> is started with path to UEFI only and relies on libvirt to figure
> out corresponding NVRAM template to create a per-domain copy
> from. The fix consisted of having a check tailored exactly for
> this use case and if it's hit then using FW autoselection to
> figure it out. Unfortunately, the NVRAM template is not saved in
> the inactive XML (well, the domain might be transient anyway).
> Then, as a part of that check we see whether the per-domain copy
> doesn't exist already and if it does then no template is looked
> up hence no template will appear in the live XML.
> 
> This works, until the domain is migrated. At the destination, the
> per-domain copy will not exist so we need to know the template to
> create the per-domain copy from. But we don't even get to the
> check because we are not starting a fresh new domain and thus the
> qemuFirmwareFillDomain() function quits early.
> 
> The solution is to switch order of these two checks. That is
> evaluate the check for the old style before checking flags.
> 
> Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1852910
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
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>  src/qemu/qemu_firmware.c | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com>

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