Hi rendaw, rendaw <7e9wc56emja...@s.rendaw.me> skribis:
> On 4/25/19 5:44 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> Exactly: currently QEMU is run with a plain old BIOS, and not with the >> UEFI firmware, so what you want is not implemented yet (see the comment >> in gnu/system/vm.scm:799). >> >> I’m closing this bug, but you can open a wishlist item about it if you >> want! >> >> Thanks, >> Ludo’. > > I'm not going to comment on the wishlist thing, but this seems like a > fairly huge problem: > > 1. The documentation doesn't mention this anywhere! Not in the > bootloader docs, not in the disk-image docs, not in the "limitations", > not in "hardware considerations" > > 2. I've spent several _days_ now digging through Guix source code and > never found that message. I’m sorry to hear that. I guess that the reason the documentation doesn’t mention it is that users didn’t find it all that important. My guess is that to many of us, using a VM is a way to test an OS, and it doesn’t matter in that context whether the emulated machine uses a PC BIOS or UEFI. I understand that it does matter in some cases, so I agree we should support it. I don’t know exactly what it would take, but if you have ideas, they’d be welcome. > 3. The build still completes with a successful exit code. The only way > to find out the image doesn't have a bootloader (-> is unusable) is to > try to boot it Yes, that’s an unfortunate bug reported here: <https://issues.guix.info/issue/34276>. Thanks, Ludo’.
