Re: Proposal for EFI firmware support on KVM

2019-04-02 Thread Nux!
Thanks! -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro - Original Message - > From: "Sven Vogel" > To: "dev" > Sent: Wednesday, 27 March, 2019 22:34:24 > Subject: Re: Proposal for EFI firmware support on KVM > Hi Nux, >

Re: Proposal for EFI firmware support on KVM

2019-03-27 Thread Sven Vogel
Hi Nux, I think kvm is the same like VMware. Have a look here. „Do I need a host with EFI firmware? No. The host's firmware is totally independent of the virtual machine's firmware, so BIOS hosts can run EFI virtual machines, and EFI hosts can run BIOS virtual machines. „ https://communitie

Re: Proposal for EFI firmware support on KVM

2019-03-27 Thread Nux!
Stupid question: does the hypervisor need to be running in EFI mode as well for this to work properly? I don't think that's a requirement at all, but just making sure. I am avoiding EFI like the plague, but at some point I'll need to bite the bullet. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg t

Re: Proposal for EFI firmware support on KVM

2019-03-14 Thread Nathan Johnson
er would then need to be aware of that specific VM detail at that point - "efi" in this case? Thanks! > > > Regards, > > Nicolas Vazquez > > ________ > From: Sven Vogel > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 11:55 AM > To: dev@cloudst

Re: Proposal for EFI firmware support on KVM

2019-03-14 Thread Nathan Johnson
Nathan Johnson Senior R&D Engineer Education Networks of America > On Mar 14, 2019, at 9:14 AM, Wido den Hollander wrote: > > > > On 3/13/19 3:29 PM, Nathan Johnson wrote: >> I've put together an approach for EFI support that we would like to get some >> feedback on before I create a PR.

Re: Proposal for EFI firmware support on KVM

2019-03-14 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 3/13/19 3:29 PM, Nathan Johnson wrote: > I've put together an approach for EFI support that we would like to get some > feedback on before I create a PR. Constructive criticism would be > appreciated. > > I've added the following properties to be configured in the agent.properties: > > g

Re: Proposal for EFI firmware support on KVM

2019-03-13 Thread Nicolas Vazquez
e it more robust in case host tags are not created. Regards, Nicolas Vazquez From: Sven Vogel Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 11:55 AM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Proposal for EFI firmware support on KVM Hi Nathan, Sounds not bad. Yes we think it

Re: Proposal for EFI firmware support on KVM

2019-03-13 Thread Sven Vogel
Hi Nathan, Sounds not bad. Yes we think it could be a good idea. It point 2) is where can be found the efi=true? And Second How can we decide which machine will use efi or normal bios? efi=true flag? The settings for the agent sound good. After that it should be possible to use tianocore ovmf