Booting Windows/UEFI (was Re: Booting r298488 as Xen Dom0 may break ZFS pool?)

[Marcin Cieslak]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Roger Pau Monné wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 09:24:30AM +0000, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> > I got lazy and I have downloaded
> > 
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/edk2/files/OVMF/OVMF-X64-r15214.zip/download
> > 
> > recompiled xen-tools by adding to xen-tools/Makefile
> > 
> > CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --enable-ovmf
> > CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --with-system-ovmf=/root/xen/OVMF.fd
> > 
> > and worked pretty much out of the box.
> 
> Oh, thanks for the info, I didn't know OVMF provided pre-compiled binaries. 
> This should make adding a OVMF port trivial. Would you like to take a stab 
> at adding such a port and wiring it into the xen-tools package?

Yes, should be easy. Will try to plug a binary port in.

By the way, I just managed to crash a whole machine by trying to
boot Solaris 11.3:

# builder = "hvm"
memory = 2048
vcpus = 1
name = "Solaris0"
disk = [ 'file:/root/sol-11_3-text-x86.iso,6:cdrom,r', '/dev/zvol/zroot/solaris0,raw,hda,w' ]
kernel = "/root/xen/solaris/unix"
ramdisk = "/root/xen/solaris/boot_archive"
extra = "/platform/i86xpv/kernel/amd64/unix -B console=ttya,livemode=text"
#boot = "c"
usbdevice = 'tablet'
vnc = 1
vnclisten = '0.0.0.0'
vif = [ 'bridge=bridge0' ]

/root/xen/solaris/unix and /root/xen/solaris/boot_archive where extracted from sol-11_3-text-x86.iso
("Intel text-only image").

Marcin