Re: Question about SEV* guests and automatic firmware selection

On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 03:28:49PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote: > > Andrea, > > > > Having spent a fair bit of time in the firmware auto-selection code, > > perhaps you have an opinion about this? > > Sorry to keep nagging about this

> I would need to install Fedora and verify myself, but I'd be surprised if it > didn't encounter the same issue. Without the 'stateless' attribute, the > following test would fail > > https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/blob/master/src/qemu/qemu_firmware.c... > > executing the else condition, and failing similarly since the firmware is not split. So I've tested the scenario I mentioned before, and in fact see the same behaviour as you describe error: operation failed: Unable to find 'efi' firmware that is compatible with the current configuration which confuses me, because I'm sure I used virt-install to provision SNP guests before, without expanding the args to --boot uefi,loader.stateless=on