[PATCH 0/3] libxl: A few firmware improvments

Michal Prívozník mprivozn at redhat.com
Tue Jun 8 09:15:38 UTC 2021


On 6/4/21 7:27 PM, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> Upstream ovmf will be removing support for Xen in the traditional ovmf
> package, moving it to a separate OvmfXen package
> 
> https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2122
> 
> This motivated me to verify the impact on libvirt+ovmf+xen. Fortunately it
> is minimal since the new OvmfXen package is basically a reduced version of
> the traditional package. I.e. it should contain everything the traditional
> package contains and thus is binary compatible and should not affect
> existing guests using the traditional package. Indeed my initial testing
> has shown this to be true.
> 
> While testing I cooked up a few improvements to the libxl driver firmware
> handling, including adding support for automatic firmware selection.
> 
> Thanks for review/comments!
> 
> Jim Fehlig (3):
>   libxl: Introduce domain def validate callback
>   libxl: Forbid domain definition with secure boot enabled
>   libxl: Support firmware autoselection
> 
>  src/libxl/libxl_conf.c   | 17 ++++++++++++--
>  src/libxl/libxl_domain.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>

Michal




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