Ubuntu 24.04 and virt-manager

[Jerry Geis]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have virtual machines that are UEFI...However - I want to define a new
>> VM with virt-manager and I am not getting the UEFI options or secure boot
>> options.
>> OVMF is installed
>>
>> apt list --installed | grep ovmf
>> ovmf/noble-updates,now 2024.02-2ubuntu0.4 all
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>
> In the old days, you needed to enable nvram in /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf.  I
> don't know what needs to be done nowadays:
>
> $ grep -A 6 -i nvram /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
> # Location of master nvram file
> #
> # This configuration option is obsolete. Libvirt will follow the
> # QEMU firmware metadata specification to automatically locate
> # firmware images. See docs/interop/firmware.json in the QEMU
> # source tree. These metadata files are distributed alongside any
> # firmware images intended for use with QEMU.
> --
> # however, have different variables store. Therefore the nvram is
> # a list of strings when a single item is in form of:
> #   ${PATH_TO_UEFI_FW}:${PATH_TO_UEFI_VARS}.
> # Later, when libvirt creates per domain variable store, this list is
> # searched for the master image. The UEFI firmware can be called
> # differently for different guest architectures. For instance, it's OVMF
> # for x86_64 and i686, but it's AAVMF for aarch64. The libvirt default
> --
> #nvram = [
> #   "/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd:/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_VARS.fd",
> #   "/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.secboot.fd:/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_VARS.fd",
> #   "/usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF_CODE.fd:/usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF_VARS.fd",
> #   "/usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF32_CODE.fd:/usr/share/AAVMF/AAVMF32_VARS.fd",
> #   "/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.ms.fd:/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_VARS.ms.fd"
> #]
>
> Jeff
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Thanks - I edit the file and removed teh comments, then did
systemctl restart libvirtd

tried to create my new VM - and still no options just BIOS - and Q35

Jerry
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