libvirt with modified QEMU and OVMF

2018-09-01 Thread Lars Böckel
Hello Guix, i wanted to recommend some changes to libvirt which would improve the usability of libvirt. 1) OVMF(UEFI) capability with QEMU. In NixOS you can achieve this with   virtualisation.libvirtd.enable = true;   virtualisation.libvirtd.qemuOvmf = true;    virtualisation.libvirtd.qemuVer

Re: libvirt with modified QEMU and OVMF

2018-09-09 Thread Lars Böckel
Thanks for sharing your idea about it. I cannot pull right now but i think ...nvram = " ovmf "/F... would not work since you would have to call the complete path of the package. Though something like "nvram = /run/current-system/profile/share/firmware/ovmf_x64.bin" COULD work. I don't know how

Re: libvirt with modified QEMU and OVMF

2018-11-17 Thread Lars Böckel
So to follow this up now. I tried these: (simple-service 'qemu-conf etc-service-type `(("libvirt/qemu.conf" ,(mixed-text-file "qemu.conf" "nvram = /run/current-system/profile/share/firmware/ovmf_x64.bin \n user=

Re: libvirt with modified QEMU and OVMF

2018-11-17 Thread Lars Böckel
So to follow this up now. I tried these: (simple-service 'qemu-conf etc-service-type `(("libvirt/qemu.conf" ,(mixed-text-file "qemu.conf" "nvram = /run/current-system/profile/share/firmware/ovmf_x64.bin \n user=