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Re: [Qemu-discuss] Impact of incorrectly-mapped OVMF


From: Prerna
Subject: Re: [Qemu-discuss] Impact of incorrectly-mapped OVMF
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 22:05:34 +0530

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 7:59 AM, Prerna <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi all,
> In playing around with OVMF a few times I accidentally specified my
> qemu-kvm binary with this erroneous command line: "qemu-kvm ... -bios
> /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd" instead of passing this as if=pflash.
>
> I was expecting this to error out in qemu, but surprisingly qemu(2.6) let
> the VM boot into EDK2 shell, and even past that into the VM's cdrom that
> ran an installer.  Ofcourse the VM would sporadically see odd hangs/crashes
> but that would always happen at a different time instant (sometimes not
> happening for even days).
>
> My question is, what happens from a firmware initialisation perspective if
> edk2 is passed as a bios rom instead of as pflash? Also, given that all
> these are effectively blobs that load into memory, is there some sort of
> pre-check that can be done by QEMU to avoid loading OVMF binary as a bios
> ROM ?
>
> (Note that this is purely out of curiosity, I understand it is risky to
> run this in production )
> (with mismatched -bios/pflash tag)
>

Laszlo, if you could provide any pointers for me to understand this better ?

Regards,
Prerna


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