QEMU: Difference between revisions

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 == Configuration ==
-=== Booting UEFI ===
+=== UEFI firmware support ===
-To boot UEFI systems using QEMU, the UEFI firmware replacing the BIOS implementation needs to be provided while starting QEMU.
+To enable UEFI firmware support in Virt-Manager, Libvirt, Gnome-Boxes etc. add following snippet to your system configuration and apply it<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
+systemd.tmpfiles.rules = [ "L+ /var/lib/qemu/firmware - - - - ${pkgs.qemu}/share/qemu/firmware" ];
-The following installs a script, that always starts QEMU with OVMF firmware implementing UEFI support.
-<syntaxhighlight lang=nix>
- environment = {
-   systemPackages = [
-     (pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "qemu-system-x86_64-uefi" ''
-       qemu-system-x86_64 \
-         -bios ${pkgs.OVMF.fd}/FV/OVMF.fd \
-         "$@"
-     '')
-   ];
- };
 </syntaxhighlight>
-qcow-efi images generated from [https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators nixos-generators] require more RAM than the default 128MB.  Failing to provide enough RAM results in grub reporting "error: start_image() returned 0x800000000000009." or systemd-boot reporting "Failed to execute NixOS: Out of resources".
 === Run binaries of different architecture ===