Re: QEMU + HVF Fails to start OVMF.fd (hang before displaying logo)

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Hi Olivier,

Cc'ing the HVF maintainers.

On 5/11/20 12:26 PM, LAHAYE Olivier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m facing a similar problem to this one, but I’m unable to find any 
> solution via google.
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg04372.html
>
> I’m trying to run an EFI BIOS using qemu.
>
>   * It works fine without acceleration
>   * It hangs (display not initialized) when using -accel hvf
>
> I’ve tested many OVMF.fd files from internet including the official one 
> of course whith no differences. (always work with no acceleration and 
> always fail with HVF acceleration).
>
>   * OS: MacOS 10.14.6
>   * QEMU 5.0.0 monitor - type 'help' for more information
>   * (qemu) qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested
>     feature: CPUID.80000001H:ECX.svm [bit 2]
>   * info roms
>   * fw=genroms/kvmvapic.bin size=0x002400 name="kvmvapic.bin"
>   * addr=00000000fff00000 size=0x100000 mem=rom
>     name="/Users/ol222822/data/OVMF.fd"
>   * /rom@etc/acpi/tables size=0x200000 name="etc/acpi/tables"
>   * /rom@etc/table-loader size=0x001000 name="etc/table-loader"
>   * /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size=0x000014 name="etc/acpi/rsdp"
>
> Is it a known issue?
>
> Is there something I’m missing?
>
> I’m running qemu in the following way:
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 -machine q35 -bios ~/data/OVMF.fd -monitor stdio
>
> If I add -accel hvf, it’ll hang before tiano core logo.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
>
> Olivier LAHAYE