KVM OVMF

KVM OVMF.md

KVM OVMF

• 2016-02-20: Ubuntu 15.10 (x86_64) can successfully build OVMF
• 2016-02-20: The OVMF download from http://www.tianocore.org/ is out of date
• The Release r15214 (OVMF-X64-r15214.zip) appears to be from 2014-02-11:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/edk2/files/OVMF/

• Project appears to use SF svn primarily, but with a GitHub mirror:

https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/tree/master

• For these instructions, using GitHub mirror.

Install Dependencies

• Ubuntu 15.10 (x86_64)
• Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential git uuid-dev iasl subversion

Build

• TODO: Update to change resolution from 800x600

• Using GitHub to check out and build BaseTools:

mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
git clone https://github.com/tianocore/edk2
make -C edk2/BaseTools

• 2016-02-20: commit value 7cf1e91d611c5dbe8bdaefd5a48b61e63ea58263

• Setup:

cd ~/src/edk2
export EDK_TOOLS_PATH=$HOME/src/edk2/BaseTools
. edksetup.sh

• Build just OVMF:

OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 -t GCC49

• NOTE: Using X64, no 32 bit support

• NOTE: Using GCC49, even though current (2016-01-09) GCC installed is 5.x

• Create /vm/osx-ovmf-bios-svn-build and copy ./Build/OvmfX64/DEBUG_GCC46/FV/OVMF.fd into the directory as bios.bin:

sudo mkdir /vm/osx-ovmf-bios-src-build
sudo cp ./Build/OvmfX64/DEBUG_GCC49/FV/OVMF.fd /vm/osx-ovmf-bios-src-build/bios.bin

• Reference:

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/tree/master/OvmfPkg

https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Using-EDK-II-with-Native-GCC

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEFI/EDK2

https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/How%20to%20build%20OVMF

On Ubuntu Xenial (installed from beta 2), I had to add "nasm" to the dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential git uuid-dev iasl subversion nasm