That article is being rewritten in a neighbor thread, beware. On Apr 15, 2016 3:36 PM, "Garland Key" <david.garland....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Arch doesn't provide these files. In the wiki, you're asked to extract > the files from the rpm and copy them to the appropriate directly. From > there, you modify the config file to point to the bin files so that > virt-manager can see it. > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> On 04/15/16 12:58, Philip Abernethy wrote: >> > The upside to my, admittedly cludgy, solution is that it works without >> > adding custom repos or installing half-assed AUR packages. >> > You may want to consider explaining the situation to the maintainer of >> > extra/ovmf and perhaps suggest a solution. >> > >> > Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com <mailto:ler...@redhat.com>> schrieb am >> > Fr., 15. Apr. 2016 um 12:08 Uhr: >> > >> > On 04/15/16 10:45, Philip Abernethy wrote: >> > > I'm using extra/ovmf on my machine and just had to add >> > > >> > > nvram = [ >> > > "/usr/share/ovmf/ovmf_x64.bin:/usr/share/ovmf/ovmf_x64.bin" >> > > ] >> >> I am not an Arch Linux user, so -- while I am very fond of the Arch >> Linux documentation! -- I would prefer if Arch Linux users talked to >> their packagers. >> >> Gerd's build script is publicly available, of course: either from the >> src.rpm under <https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/edk2/>, or directly >> from git: <https://www.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/edk2/tree/edk2.git.spec>. >> >> So... I cannot say if ArchLinux actually ships the split files, and just >> the above example was incorrect, *or* if ArchLinux doesn't even ship the >> split files. >> >> In the ArchLinux wiki, >> >> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Complete_example_for_QEMU_.28CLI-based.29_without_libvirtd >> >> I saw pathnames like >> >> /usr/share/ovmf/x64/ovmf_code_x64.bin >> /usr/share/ovmf/x64/ovmf_vars_x64.bin >> >> hence I assumed that ArchLinux was shipping the split files (and that >> the example near the top was incorrect). I may have been wrong -- I >> don't use Arch and don't know what Arch package provides what files. >> >> Thanks >> Laszlo >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > vfio-users mailing list > vfio-users@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users > >
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