Convert the firmware key to a type of autoselected firmware. Only the 'efi' firmware is allowed for now, in case the key is present. It seems VMware (at least ESXi) does not write the key in VMX files when setting BIOS as firmware. Signed-off-by: Pino Toscano <ptoscano(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/vmx/vmx.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-firmware-efi.vmx | 3 +++ tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-firmware-efi.xml | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ tests/vmx2xmltest.c | 2 ++ 4 files changed, 39 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-firmware-efi.vmx create mode 100644 tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-firmware-efi.xml diff --git a/src/vmx/vmx.c b/src/vmx/vmx.c index ae9ee87be3..3842991bab 100644 --- a/src/vmx/vmx.c +++ b/src/vmx/vmx.c @@ -1304,6 +1304,7 @@ virVMXParseConfig(virVMXContext *ctx, struct virVMXConfigScanResults results = { -1 }; long long coresPerSocket = 0; virCPUDefPtr cpu = NULL; + char *firmware = NULL; if (ctx->parseFileName == NULL) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s", @@ -1826,6 +1827,21 @@ virVMXParseConfig(virVMXContext *ctx, def->namespaceData = nsdata; } + /* vmx:firmware */ + if (virVMXGetConfigString(conf, "firmware", &firmware, true) < 0) + goto cleanup; + + if (firmware != NULL) { + if (STREQ(firmware, "efi")) { + def->os.firmware = VIR_DOMAIN_OS_DEF_FIRMWARE_EFI; + } else { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, + _("VMX entry 'firmware' has unknown value '%s'"), + firmware); + goto cleanup; + } + } + if (virDomainDefPostParse(def, caps, VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_ABI_UPDATE, xmlopt, NULL) < 0) goto cleanup; diff --git a/tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-firmware-efi.vmx b/tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-firmware-efi.vmx new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..dbb215a5db --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-firmware-efi.vmx @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +config.version = "8" +virtualHW.version = "13" +firmware = "efi" diff --git a/tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-firmware-efi.xml b/tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-firmware-efi.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e21158cebf --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-firmware-efi.xml @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +<domain type='vmware'> + <uuid>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</uuid> + <memory unit='KiB'>32768</memory> + <currentMemory unit='KiB'>32768</currentMemory> + <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu> + <os firmware='efi'> + <type arch='i686'>hvm</type> + </os> + <clock offset='utc'/> + <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> + <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> + <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> + <devices> + <video> + <model type='vmvga' vram='4096' primary='yes'/> + </video> + </devices> +</domain> diff --git a/tests/vmx2xmltest.c b/tests/vmx2xmltest.c index b70e8191d1..d7d03f1753 100644 --- a/tests/vmx2xmltest.c +++ b/tests/vmx2xmltest.c @@ -285,6 +285,8 @@ mymain(void) DO_TEST("svga", "svga"); + DO_TEST("firmware-efi", "firmware-efi"); + ctx.datacenterPath = "folder1/folder2/datacenter1"; DO_TEST("datacenterpath", "datacenterpath"); -- 2.20.1

Signed-off-by: Pino Toscano <ptoscano(a)redhat.com&gt; --- docs/formatdomain.html.in | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in index 0e3799061d..3d84ae0fcb 100644 --- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in +++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in @@ -159,7 +159,10 @@ For more information refer to firmware metadata specification as described in <code>docs/interop/firmware.json</code> in QEMU repository. Regular users do not need to bother. - <span class="since">Since 5.2.0 (QEMU and KVM only)</span> + <span class="since">Since 5.2.0 (QEMU and KVM only)</span><br/> + For VMware guests, this is set to <code>efi</code> when the guest + uses UEFI, and it is not set when using BIOS. + <span class="since">Since 5.3.0 (VMware ESX and Workstation/Player)</span> </dd> <dt><code>type</code></dt> <dd>The content of the <code>type</code> element specifies the -- 2.20.1