On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 10:48:55AM +0000, Michael Kjörling wrote:
On 22 Sep 2023 01:34 -0700, from abologna@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.
Good idea. I've thought about doing this several times, but never actually gotten around to it. Patch on the list :) https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2023-September/242219.html -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization