On 4 February 2014 09:46, Dimitri John Ledkov <launch...@surgut.co.uk> wrote:
> On 30 January 2014 22:57, Jamie Strandboge <ja...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> apport information
>>
>> ** Tags added: apport-collected saucy
>>
>> ** Description changed:
>>
>>   On up to date 14.04, if I create a vm with:
>>   virt-install --connect=qemu:///system --name=sb-saucy-amd64 --arch=x86_64 
>> --ram=768 \
>>   --disk=path=<path 
>> to>/sb-saucy-amd64.qcow2,size=8,format=qcow2,bus=ide,sparse=True \
>>   --virt-type=kvm --accelerate --hvm --cdrom=<path 
>> to>/saucy-desktop-amd64.iso \
>>   --os-type=linux --os-variant=generic26 --graphics=vnc 
>> --network=network=default,model=virtio \
>>   --video=cirrus --noreboot --boot=loader=OVMF.fd
>>
>
> I believe --boot=loader=OVMF.fd is not correct option. A valid one is
> --boot-loader=OVMF.fd.

Bah, checked my old scripts and manual, the
--boot=loader=path/to/ovmf.fd is correct syntax.

> Nonetheless, that wouldn't be ideal way to execute OVMF.fd. It's
> better to make a copy of OVMF.fd and provision the copy to qemu as a
> -pflash copy-of-OVMF.fd in Read-Write mode, cause then one can store
> all variables & secureboot keys which survive a reboot. Does
> virt-install support provisioning "-pflash" devices?

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.

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  14.04 ovmf causes oops when running update-grub under kvm

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