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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: 28768@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28768: guix system vm Failed to install GRUB (EFI)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:46:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ew0rbxc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efqa95x4.fsf@fastmail.com> (Marius Bakke's message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2017 21:08:55 +0200")

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Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

> Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> 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:


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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

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That’s what I do manually anyway.

WDYT?  If that’s fine with you, I can commit it.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-12  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-09 19:50 bug#28768: guix system vm Failed to install GRUB (EFI) Oleg Pykhalov
2017-10-10 19:08 ` Marius Bakke
2017-10-12  8:46   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-10-19 18:21     ` Marius Bakke
2017-10-19 21:25       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-19 20:32     ` Oleg Pykhalov

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