From: "Lars Böckel" <listdump@larf.space>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: libvirt with modified QEMU and OVMF
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 01:16:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <129c5140-eb4c-27df-fe43-6f7cbd423edd@larf.space> (raw)
Hello Guix,
i wanted to recommend some changes to libvirt which would improve the
usability of libvirt.
1) OVMF(UEFI) capability with QEMU. In NixOS you can achieve this with
virtualisation.libvirtd.enable = true;
virtualisation.libvirtd.qemuOvmf = true;
virtualisation.libvirtd.qemuVerbatimConfig = ''
nvram = [ "${pkgs.OVMF}/FV/OVMF.fd:${pkgs.OVMF}/FV/OVMF_VARS.fd" ]
user = "1000"
'';
the "user" part is not necessary but is required for system VMs in
combination with qemu's pulseaudio driver. qemuVerbatimConfig is the
config that is at /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf in traditional GNU/Linux
distributions.
2) Using a modified QEMU with libvirt. A modified QEMU could help
sometimes. A way to specify which QEMU package to use would be helpful
to resolve issues with newer qemu versions or patches which are not
upstream. While in NixOS you could add patches like this
nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = pkgs: rec {
qemu = pkgs.qemu.overrideAttrs (attrs:{
patches = (lib.filter (x: ! (lib.hasSuffix
"fix-hda-recording.patch" (builtins.toString x))) attrs.patches) ++ [
/path/to/qemu.patch ];
}
);
};
to the QEMU package, i don't think this is possible in GuixSD.
Thank you for your work. Please let me know what you think.
next reply other threads:[~2018-09-01 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-01 23:16 Lars Böckel [this message]
2018-09-02 5:18 ` libvirt with modified QEMU and OVMF Gábor Boskovits
2018-09-02 8:16 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-08 11:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
[not found] ` <b86074ab-f530-670a-550b-0b0b21b5cbe2@larf.space>
2018-09-08 21:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-08 21:56 ` Lars Böckel
2018-09-13 21:03 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-11-17 22:34 ` Lars Böckel
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2018-11-17 22:48 Lars Böckel
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