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bug#28768: guix system vm Failed to install GRUB (EFI)
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#28768: guix system vm Failed to install GRUB (EFI) |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:46:23 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) |
Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:
> Oleg Pykhalov <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> EFI bootloader configuration causes problems to test with 'system vm'
>> before 'reconfigure'.
>
> This is because `guix system vm` is not currently UEFI enabled, so GRUB
> tries to install for a normal PC BIOS.
>
> The fix would be to make the various QEMU invocations in (gnu system vm)
> take a #:firmware parameter that passes something along the lines of
> '-bios #$(file-append ovmf "/share/ovmf/firmware/ovmf_x64.bin")' to the
> QEMU command-line, and update other scripts to take advantage.
Perhaps by adding it to <virtual-machine> records we’d make it less
annoying to pass around? Or are there other places that would still
need extra care?
Another option, in the meantime is this:
diff --git a/gnu/system/vm.scm b/gnu/system/vm.scm
index 273a895be..f763b430b 100644
--- a/gnu/system/vm.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/vm.scm
@@ -565,6 +565,14 @@ environment with the store shared with the host. MAPPINGS
is a list of
user-file-systems)))
(operating-system (inherit os)
+
+ ;; XXX: Until we run QEMU with UEFI support (with the OVMF firmware),
+ ;; force the traditional i386/BIOS method.
+ ;; See <https://bugs.gnu.org/28768>.
+ (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
+ (bootloader grub-bootloader)
+ (target "/dev/vda")))
+
(initrd (lambda (file-systems . rest)
(apply base-initrd file-systems
#:volatile-root? #t
That’s what I do manually anyway.
WDYT? If that’s fine with you, I can commit it.
Thanks,
Ludo’.