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Bug 320757 - app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-3.2.0 does not install firmware images for EFI
Summary: app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-3.2.0 does not install firmware images for EFI
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Patrick Lauer
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Reported: 2010-05-20 18:21 UTC by Evan Teran
Modified: 2010-05-20 20:33 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Evan Teran 2010-05-20 18:21:19 UTC 
since 3.1.x virtualbox has supported EFI booting for guests. This requires the firmware to be installed in the virtualbox lib directory. The needed files are in:

VirtualBox-3.2.0_OSE/src/VBox/Devices/EFI/FirmwareBin/

Where VirtualBox-3.2.0_OSE is obviously the source directory. They seem to need to be copied into /usr/lib/virtualbox-ose for virtualbox's EFI support to work correctly.

Without this virtualbox fails to boot the VM with a VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND error (unfortunately, it doesn't specify which file is missing so this took a bit to figure out).

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-20 20:33:50 UTC 
+*virtualbox-ose-3.2.0-r1 (20 May 2010)
+
+  20 May 2010; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
+  -virtualbox-ose-3.2.0.ebuild, +virtualbox-ose-3.2.0-r1.ebuild,
+  files/virtualbox-ose-3-localconfig:
+  Fixed building with gcc-4.5 (bug #320741) and install EFI firmware images
+  (bug #320757). Thanks to Evan Teran who reported both bugs.
+