(more precisely, the nvram element will be auto-generated when you exit "virsh edit", and the nvram file will be created (copied) from the varstore template when you launch the domain)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1818367 Title: Initialization of device cfi.pflash01 failed: Block node is read-only Status in libvirt: New Status in QEMU: Invalid Bug description: Hi, I have several vms defined in libvirt using ovmf for uefi, since a later update of my server I'm unable to start any of the domains defined. This is an example of the output given: # virsh start os-1 error: Failed to start domain os-1 error: internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the monitor: 2019-03-02T21:23:51.726446Z qemu-system-x86_64: Initialization of device cfi.pflash01 failed: Block node is read-only an example of domain is like this: <domain type='kvm'> <name>os-1</name> <uuid>34c41008-ab91-483b-959c-81a7a12ae9be</uuid> <memory unit='KiB'>8388608</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>8388608</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <hugepages/> </memoryBacking> <vcpu placement='static' cpuset='10-11,34-35'>4</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.12'>hvm</type> <loader type='pflash'>/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/os-1-ovmf.fd</loader> <boot dev='network'/> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> </features> <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='partial'/> <clock offset='utc'> <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/> <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/> <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <pm> <suspend-to-mem enabled='no'/> <suspend-to-disk enabled='no'/> </pm> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator> <disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none' io='native'/> <source dev='/dev/vg0/os-1-vda'/> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </disk> <disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none' io='native'/> <source dev='/dev/vg0/os-1-vdb'/> <target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/> </disk> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-ehci1'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x7'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci1'> <master startport='0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci2'> <master startport='2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'> <master startport='4'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/> <controller type='ide' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:78:cb:97'/> <source bridge='virbr0'/> <model type='rtl8139'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </interface> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:1c:4f:22'/> <source bridge='virbr1'/> <model type='rtl8139'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target type='isa-serial' port='0'> <model name='isa-serial'/> </target> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes'> <listen type='address'/> </graphics> <video> <model type='cirrus' vram='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </video> <memballoon model='virtio'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x09' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> </domain> where /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/os-1-ovmf.fd is a copy of /usr/share/edk2-ovmf/OVMF_VARS.fd. An the extract from my /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf to define ovmf: ... # Location of master nvram file # # When a domain is configured to use UEFI instead of standard # BIOS it may use a separate storage for UEFI variables. If # that's the case libvirt creates the variable store per domain # using this master file as image. Each UEFI firmware can, # however, have different variables store. Therefore the nvram is # a list of strings when a single item is in form of: # ${PATH_TO_UEFI_FW}:${PATH_TO_UEFI_VARS}. # Later, when libvirt creates per domain variable store, this list is # searched for the master image. The UEFI firmware can be called # differently for different guest architectures. For instance, it's OVMF # for x86_64 and i686, but it's AAVMF for aarch64. The libvirt default # follows this scheme. nvram = [ "/usr/share/edk2-ovmf/OVMF_CODE.fd:/usr/share/edk2-ovmf/OVMF_VARS.fd", ] ... This setup used to work one month ago, now it's setup with: QEMU emulator version 3.1.0 libvirt-5.0.0 linux-4.19.20 Any help appreciated. Best regards. José To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libvirt/+bug/1818367/+subscriptions
