I just dug out the RPM from which I've extracted the firmware files: edk2.git-ovmf-x64-0-20160714.b1992.gfc3f005.noarch.rpm
I've made it available online, in case anyone wants to give it a try: https://exa.flopser.de/s/z3cjqFUlZ2gBPCy Cheers, Hristo July 26, 2017 10:17 AM, "Hagbard Celine" <hagbardce...@gmail.com> wrote: > After seeing that the older version fixed the problem for John and > checking my archive of OVMF builds. I conclude that there is a > upstream regression that manifest first in versions between > edk2.git-ovmf-x64-0-20160323.b1631.ga7b1590.noarch.rpm and > edk2.git-ovmf-x64-0-20160419.b1737.gc4cc609.noarch.rpm, then gets > worse at newer versions. (Unless it is two issues, the first only > responsible for approx. 5 sec boot delay) > > Timing form pressing Power-On in Virt-manager to the circle under win > 10 logo shows: > edk2.git-ovmf-x64-0-20160323.b1631.ga7b1590.noarch.rpm: 18 sec > edk2.git-ovmf-x64-0-20160324.b1635.gf0bbcdf.noarch.rpm: 20 sec > edk2.git-ovmf-x64-0-20160419.b1737.gc4cc609.noarch.rpm: 25 sec > edk2.git-ovmf-x64-0-20160829.b2090.g5f53a7a.noarch.rpm: 87 sec > > Also edk2.git-ovmf-x64-0-20160510.b1805.g05b2f9c.noarch.rpm hangs with > no-cpu-usage, and > edk2.git-ovmf-x64-0-20160829.b2090.g5f53a7a.noarch.rpm is the first > version with cpu at 100% until windows starts booting. > > 2017-07-26 0:49 GMT+01:00, Blair Bethwaite <blair.bethwa...@gmail.com>: > >> Is there an upstream OVMF bug for the root cause or is it still unknown? >> >> On 26 Jul. 2017 08:41, "John Koelndorfer" <jkoelndor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Good news, folks! >>> >>> Hagbard was kind enough to send an older build of OVMF he had lying >>> around >>> and suggested I try it. I did, and I am happy to report my VM boots very >>> fast again! For safekeeping, I have committed it to my GitHub repository: >>> https://github.com/jkoelndorfer/local-tools/blob >>> master/workstation/vfio/edk2.git-ovmf-x64-0-20150804.b1143. >>> g8ca1489.noarch.rpm. I believe that when I did my initial VFIO setup, I >>> used a package from the AUR which may have been just old enough to avoid >>> the problem. >>> >>> I may experiment some and see if any of the qemu parameters provided by >>> Hristo make a difference with a current version of OVMF. For now, I'm >>> happy >>> my VM is booting quickly. >>> >>> Thanks very much for your help. >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 7:22 PM, John Koelndorfer >>> <jkoelndor...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >> >> An update: >> >> The slow boot does not occur if I remove host devices from the virtual >> machine (without any other configuration changes). It doesn't matter >> whether GPU, USB, or both are passed in. Any device being passed in at >> all >> triggers the problem, so it's something related to the physical device >> passthrough I think. >> >> An older version of OVMF did not help, nor did booting a non-Windows OS. >> I tried two alternate versions of OVMF from here: >> https://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=edk2-ovmf. One >> from 2016 November, one from 2016 April. I initially did my last VFIO >> setup >> in 2016 July. >> >> I also tried the pc-i440fx machine, per Hristo's suggestion (though I >> tried 2.6, which was what my last configuration used). >> >> Hristo, it seems your setup is very similar to mine, so I have a few >> questions for you: >> >> * Are you using libvirt? >> * Could you send the qemu arguments for your VM? >> * What are your kernel boot parameters? >> >> My suspicion now is that libvirt is doing some extra configuration that >> I'm not. I looked at my old libvirt XML file and nothing is jumping out >> at >> me, so maybe it's a hardcoded default behavior. >> >> Thanks for all the suggestions so far, folks. >> >> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Hagbard Celine <hagbardce...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi, just registered to the list to share my experience on this; >> >> I've been getting my OVMF builds from kraxel.org since >> edk2.git-ovmf-x64-0-20150804.b1143.g8ca1489.noarch.rpm and was >> regularly updating when new builds came. >> Somwhere around edk2.git-ovmf-x64-0-20151221.b1390.g5ba9f06.noarch.rpm >> boot with large amounts of memory got slower. >> And around edk2.git-ovmf-x64-0-20160324.b1634.g3decba3.noarch.rpm the >> EFI part of boot could last about 15min with 16GB assigned to VM out >> of a total of 32GB. Lovering the assigned memory for VM to below 8GB >> resulted in normal boot times. >> >> PS. 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