Re: Help ! libvirt

On 22 Sep 2023 01:34 -0700, from abologna(a)redhat.com (Andrea Bolognani): >> If I switch the suspend-to-disk enabled="yes" >> I strangely get an error >> error: operation failed: Unable to find any firmware to satisfy 'efi' > > I can explain that one. > > suspend-to-disk.enabled=yes requires a firmware image that advertises > the acpi-s4 feature, and you probably don't have one on your system. > > For example, on my Fedora 38 machine: > > $ grep acpi-s4 /usr/share/qemu/firmware/*.json > $ > > Yeah, the error message is not very helpful. Unfortunately, due to > the way firmware autoselection works, emitting a better one would be > pretty much impossible :( Might a simple fix to make the error message at least slightly more helpful be to change it to something like: "Unable to find any firmware to satisfy '<whatever>' with specified settings" That would make it clearer that it isn't _necessarily_ the "efi" part (or whatever it happens to be in the specific case) which is the actual, _specific_ problem.