From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Attilio Rao Subject: Re: [PATCH]Load the cirrus vga rom for the OVMF UEFI support in hvmloader Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:37:43 +0000 Message-ID: <4F6B0F07.6000308@citrix.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Bei Guan Cc: Xen Devel , Jordan Justen , Ian Campbell , "Andrei E. Warkentin" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 22/03/12 08:29, Bei Guan wrote: > Hi All, > > Now, OVMF UEFI can boot on the Xen hvmloader. But, there is no VGA > bios for OVMF from the source code hvmloader/ovmf.c in the upstream Xen. > I have tried the vgabios provided by Xen, but I can see nothing > through the vnc client or sdl graphic window. Actually, if we check > the boot trace log of OVMF, we find that OVMF has booted into the OS > installer grub. > When I try the cirrus_vga bios (named OvmfVideo.rom in edk2) provided > by OVMF, I can see the OVMF boot successfully through the vnc client > or sdl graphic window. > I had specifically skipped this for several reasons: 1) This is not the right way to fix this (not including the VGA blob) 2) When I tried, it was working for me so I just assumed tiancore was fixed by using the BAR directly Maybe Andrei or Jordan can shade a light on tianocore behaviour here. In the while, can you please explain how to exactly reproduce your issue, posting all the configurations and environment you used? Attilio