Encrypting boot partition Libvirt not showing the OS booting up

[Peter Krempa]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 16:05:43 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 10/12/20 2:14 PM, john doe wrote:
> > > <snip/>
> > 
> > I sent privately the requested xml file to 'Peter Krempa
> > <pkrempa at redhat.com>'.
> > Peter Krempa 's privately answered me back suggesting to add the
> > following in the domain xml file:
> 
> Solving things privately doesn't help the community.

Additionally it doesn't help solving the problem, since it's now opaque
to others what the problem might be.

> > 
> > <bios useserial='yes'/> under <os>

I've suggested this as the outputs I've got privately hinted that the
console (as in virsh console) didn't get to asking for the password,
while the manually-started-qemu did.

Thus the problem actually doesn't have to do with encryption or
wahatver, but the console doesn't plainly work.

> > 
> > such as ...
> > 
> >     <os>
> >       <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-3.1'>hvm</type>
> >       <boot dev='hd'/>
> >       <bios useserial='yes'/>
> >     </os>
> > 
> 
> Try adding:
> 
>     <loader type='rom'>/usr/share/seabios/bios.bin</loader>
> 
> to <os/> so that qemu actually uses SGA bios.
> 
> Michal