Encrypting boot partition Libvirt not showing the OS booting up

[john doe]

On 10/12/2020 4:09 PM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> 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 ...
>>>
>>>   Â Â  <os>
>>>   Â Â Â Â  <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-3.1'>hvm</type>
>>>   Â Â Â Â  <boot dev='hd'/>
>>>   Â Â Â Â  <bios useserial='yes'/>
>>>   Â Â  </os>
>>>
>>
>> Try adding:
>>
>>      <loader type='rom'>/usr/share/seabios/bios.bin</loader>
>>
>> to <os/> so that qemu actually uses SGA bios.
>>
>> Michal
>

Done but to no avail.


I realy appriciate the help I'm getting in hear, thank you.

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John Doe