671924 – sys-firmware/edk2-ovmf installed, but virt-manager doesn't use that location

Bug 671924 - sys-firmware/edk2-ovmf installed, but virt-manager doesn't use that location

Summary: sys-firmware/edk2-ovmf installed, but virt-manager doesn't use that location

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Matthias Maier

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Reported:	2018-11-26 01:53 UTC by Jerrod Frost
Modified:	2018-12-26 03:15 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Jerrod Frost 2018-11-26 01:53:24 UTC

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1066336-start-0.html

it appears virt-manager looks for the edk2-ovmf firmware in /usr/share/OVMF and gentoo installs the firmware in /usr/share/edk2-ovmf.

would it be possible to change the install location or have the ebuild add a softlink of OVMF pointing to edk2-ovmf for the simplicity of it being more turnkey?

Thanks

Comment 1 Matthias Maier gentoo-dev

2018-12-26 03:15:25 UTC

Add the following lines to /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf

  nvram = [                                                                        
    "/usr/share/edk2-ovmf/OVMF_CODE.fd:/usr/share/edk2-ovmf/OVMF_VARS.fd"          
  ]

and virt-manager should happily pick up the configuration. This is currently only documented in the gentoo readme of sys-firmware/edk2-ovmf