[vfio-users] Fwd: UEFI & virt-manager on Arch

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That article is being rewritten in a neighbor thread, beware.
On Apr 15, 2016 3:36 PM, "Garland Key" <david.garland.key at gmail.com> wrote:

> Arch doesn't provide these files.  In the wiki, you're asked to extract
> the files from the rpm and copy them to the appropriate directly.  From
> there, you modify the config file to point to the bin files so that
> virt-manager can see it.
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 04/15/16 12:58, Philip Abernethy wrote:
>> > The upside to my, admittedly cludgy, solution is that it works without
>> > adding custom repos or installing half-assed AUR packages.
>> > You may want to consider explaining the situation to the maintainer of
>> > extra/ovmf and perhaps suggest a solution.
>> >
>> > Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com <mailto:lersek at redhat.com>> schrieb am
>> > Fr., 15. Apr. 2016 um 12:08 Uhr:
>> >
>> >     On 04/15/16 10:45, Philip Abernethy wrote:
>> >     > I'm using extra/ovmf on my machine and just had to add
>> >     >
>> >     > nvram = [
>> >     >    "/usr/share/ovmf/ovmf_x64.bin:/usr/share/ovmf/ovmf_x64.bin"
>> >     > ]
>>
>> I am not an Arch Linux user, so -- while I am very fond of the Arch
>> Linux documentation! -- I would prefer if Arch Linux users talked to
>> their packagers.
>>
>> Gerd's build script is publicly available, of course: either from the
>> src.rpm under <https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/edk2/>, or directly
>> from git: <https://www.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/edk2/tree/edk2.git.spec>.
>>
>> So... I cannot say if ArchLinux actually ships the split files, and just
>> the above example was incorrect, *or* if ArchLinux doesn't even ship the
>> split files.
>>
>> In the ArchLinux wiki,
>>
>>
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Complete_example_for_QEMU_.28CLI-based.29_without_libvirtd
>>
>> I saw pathnames like
>>
>>   /usr/share/ovmf/x64/ovmf_code_x64.bin
>>   /usr/share/ovmf/x64/ovmf_vars_x64.bin
>>
>> hence I assumed that ArchLinux was shipping the split files (and that
>> the example near the top was incorrect). I may have been wrong -- I
>> don't use Arch and don't know what Arch package provides what files.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Laszlo
>>
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