Are UEFI clients still not possible on 8.1 ?
I was looking for a setup in the GUI and dont see it.
Searching “suggests” that –boot-uefi may be a command line option – but again I see nothing on the GUI.
Thanks
Jerry
5 thoughts on - UEFI On CentOS 8.1
Are you talking about booting a libvirt/kvm guest via UEFI?
You need to install the edk2-ovmf package for a UEFI firmware before you can create VMs with it.
This package is installed. Yes I am talking about installing a CentOS 8
guest on a CentOS 8 machine with UEFI. The dvd.iso is on the host, which I point to. Nothing in the define new wizard mentions UEFI.
Thanks,
Jerry
Am Donnerstag, 30. Januar 2020, 22:51:49 CET schrieb Jerry Geis:
my last test (8.0) I have the Problem only one guest can installed with UEFI
all other break.
My Tool was virt-manager!
I believe in the virt-manager interface you need to set the Chipset to Q35 and Firmware to the UEFI firmware. I’m not sure how to do it with cockpit, since I’ve never used that.
The Cockpit interface that is eventually planned to replace the good old virt-manager is still in its infancy and lacks many essential features. Since I currently have no CentOS 8 host machine available for testing, I tried installing and UEFI guest machine on Fedora 30. On CentOS 7 only the old i440FX chipset is available and that does not work with UEFI firmware even though it might be available. I believe the on CentOS 8 the more modern Q35 chipset is available and that should enable UEFI clients to be installed.
The Cockpit interface might not allow the Q35 chipset nor the UEFI
firmware to be selected but virt-manager, if CentOS 8 has a sufficiently recent version, should do the trick.
5 thoughts on - UEFI On CentOS 8.1
Are you talking about booting a libvirt/kvm guest via UEFI?
You need to install the edk2-ovmf package for a UEFI firmware before you can create VMs with it.
This package is installed. Yes I am talking about installing a CentOS 8
guest on a CentOS 8 machine with UEFI. The dvd.iso is on the host, which I point to. Nothing in the define new wizard mentions UEFI.
Thanks,
Jerry
Am Donnerstag, 30. Januar 2020, 22:51:49 CET schrieb Jerry Geis:
my last test (8.0) I have the Problem only one guest can installed with UEFI
all other break.
My Tool was virt-manager!
I believe in the virt-manager interface you need to set the Chipset to Q35 and Firmware to the UEFI firmware. I’m not sure how to do it with cockpit, since I’ve never used that.
The Cockpit interface that is eventually planned to replace the good old virt-manager is still in its infancy and lacks many essential features. Since I currently have no CentOS 8 host machine available for testing, I tried installing and UEFI guest machine on Fedora 30. On CentOS 7 only the old i440FX chipset is available and that does not work with UEFI firmware even though it might be available. I believe the on CentOS 8 the more modern Q35 chipset is available and that should enable UEFI clients to be installed.
The Cockpit interface might not allow the Q35 chipset nor the UEFI
firmware to be selected but virt-manager, if CentOS 8 has a sufficiently recent version, should do the trick.
This might provide some useful information (although it’s for Fedora):
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_UEFI_with_QEMU id=”-x-evo-selection-start-marker”>
<(*) Jyrki