Hi Nux, thanks again for your advice. Until know i didn't had to deal with this myself, too. How ever: We are now getting more and more compliance guides explecitly stateing the use of UEFI as well as secure boot. Therefor the topic is getting more and more interesting as well as the whole management around it.
regards, Chris Am Mo., 28. März 2022 um 15:40 Uhr schrieb Nux <[email protected]>: > Yes, indeed. With UEFI you do get some sort of "bios" interface. > Personally I've never needed UEFI so I've stayed away from the extra > complications. > > --- > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > On 2022-03-28 14:30, [email protected] wrote: > > hi Nux, > > > > Personally i didn't want to change something 😄 - the question came from > > one of our fallow team-members, which been working with vmware indeed. > > After some more talks the question came from some testing with uefi > > capabilities. As we would need to work with the plattform keys. So this > > wasn't really about BIOS-Settings i guess. > > Looking at the OMVF-Packages needed for Uefi-Support, it seems that > > after > > installatin / activation you will get some more options to boot into > > this > > environment. > > > > regards, > > chris > > > > Am Mo., 28. März 2022 um 14:51 Uhr schrieb Nux <[email protected]>: > > > >> There is no BIOS for KVM afaik, same for Xen. > >> All the stuff you might want to change in a traditional BIOS interface > >> can be done via command line parameters. > >> What exactly do you want to change? > >> > >> --- > >> Nux! > >> www.nux.ro > >> > >> On 2022-03-28 13:46, Daan Hoogland wrote: > >> > I think the boot into bios option was only implemented for Vmware. > Good > >> > feature request though. Should be easy to implement (if KVM provides > an > >> > option for it) > >> > > >> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 10:47 AM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> >> hi piotr, > >> >> > >> >> thanks for your Link - as always high quality stuff. > >> >> But the information there is more about on how to enable UEFI at all. > >> >> > >> >> For me it is more the basic task to boot a vm directly into bios mode > >> >> without juggeling the console proxy to hit f2 at the right time. > There > >> >> has > >> >> been an issue for this > >> >> https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/3583 > >> >> > >> >> Which lead to an setting, that you can reboot a vm directly to bios > >> >> from > >> >> the gui while using vmware. > >> >> Now my question is, if there is something simila availeable for kvm - > >> >> or > >> >> how one can "easily" enter the bios of a deployed VM. > >> >> > >> >> regards, > >> >> chris > >> >> > >> >> Am Do., 24. März 2022 um 09:41 Uhr schrieb Piotr Pisz > >> >> <[email protected]>: > >> >> > >> >> > Hello, > >> >> > > >> >> > Here you will find the information you need: > >> >> > > https://lab.piszki.pl/cloudstack-vm-with-vtpm-and-secure-boot-uefi/ > >> >> > > >> >> > Regards, > >> >> > Piotr > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > -----Original Message----- > >> >> > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > >> >> > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 5:29 PM > >> >> > To: [email protected] > >> >> > Subject: Boot VM into BIOS after deployment > >> >> > > >> >> > hi everyone, > >> >> > > >> >> > currently i am looking for a way to boot a vm into bios / uefi. The > >> >> > challange for me is, that i would like to enable the actual users > to > >> do > >> >> so > >> >> > via the GUI / ConsoleProxy GUI. > >> >> > However using the consoleproxy GUI is kind of challangeing to the > >> actual > >> >> > booting speed. > >> >> > I found that there is a option availeable when vmware is used as a > >> >> > hypervisor... > >> >> > Is there somthing similar availeable for kvm? How do you manage to > >> boot > >> >> > into bios / uefi if needed? > >> >> > > >> >> > regards, > >> >> > chris > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >
