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: