Re: Testing SMM with QEMU, KVM and libvirt

["Shi, Steven" <steven.shi@intel.com>]

Hi Laszlo,
I want to see the serial debug output and hope to save it to a local file. How could I update the ovmf.fedora.q35.template to define it?


Steven Shi
Intel\SSG\STO\UEFI Firmware

Tel: +86 021-61166522
iNet: 821-6522

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:lersek@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 6:18 PM
> To: Shi, Steven <steven.shi@intel.com>; edk2-devel-01 <edk2-
> devel@ml01.01.org>
> Cc: Tian, Feng <feng.tian@intel.com>; Justen, Jordan L
> <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>; Yao, Jiewen <jiewen.yao@intel.com>; Kinney,
> Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Fan, Jeff <jeff.fan@intel.com>; Zeng,
> Star <star.zeng@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [edk2] Testing SMM with QEMU, KVM and libvirt
> 
> On 02/21/17 10:22, Shi, Steven wrote:
> > Hi Laszlo,
> > I wonder if you could offer a Ubuntu version wiki for the
> > Testing-SMM-with-QEMU,-KVM-and-libvirt?
> 
> Sorry, I can't do that.
> 
> To give you a retrospective on the current article (which targets
> Fedora), writing and testing that article took ~14 hours, on an
> operating system that I'm both familiar with and can readily install in
> our internal server farm (called "Beaker").
> 
> My method was to start with a wiped-clean physical machine, install a
> fresh, clean Fedora system, and build it all up from there. I wanted to
> make sure that all missing dependencies would be thrown in my face, so I
> could explicitly document them for readers.
> 
> This approach paid off very well (it caught a whole lot of dependencies
> that I "thought" would be available by default, but weren't!), but it
> was also the *primary* time sink while writing the article.
> 
> "Porting" the article to another Linux distribution would mean an almost
> complete rewrite. The package names are different, the package contents
> are different, the package inter-dependencies are different, the
> virtualization tools may have different versions available, the generic
> tools may be different, and so on.
> 
> > I'm trying to port your
> > steps to my Ubuntu 16.04, but meet lots of troubles. The Ubuntu
> > apt-get virsh version is too old to support smm feature in your
> > ovmf.fedora.q35.template,
> 
> That's *exactly* my point.
> 
> > and I have to build the new version libvirt
> > by myself. I meet lots of failures when configure the new version
> > virsh, and wonder if you could help.
> 
> Sorry, I don't have time for that. I don't know Ubuntu at all, have no
> contact to Ubuntu developers, and cannot even auto-install Ubuntu easily
> on a headless server in our internal server pool.
> 
> Frankly, one goal of using Fedora 25 for the host operating system was
> *exactly* that the user could avoid this kind of struggle with the
> virtualization toolstack, and they could focus on rebuilding *only* what
> was unavoidable.
> 
> (It is bad enough that at the moment I must have instructions in there
> for building QEMU from source -- once QEMU 2.9 is released and Fedora 25
> picks it up, I think I will go ahead and replace that section of the
> article, with a simple package installation command. I'll also update
> references elsewhere, such as in the domain templates.)
> 
> So, unfortunately, what you are asking for is a complete rewrite of the
> article, for Ubuntu, which I don't know and have no access to, in the
> isolated server environment that is necessary for writing and testing
> such an article.
> 
> I'm not trying to "push" Fedora with this -- a fresh Ubuntu release
> should be entirely suitable for this I *guess*, but the devil is in the
> details, and you'll need an Ubuntu person, with a corporate(-like)
> Ubuntu environment, to write that article for you.
> 
> I do confirm that I intend to support the Fedora setup with high
> priority, so if you have questions about that, I'll do my best to answer.
> 
> Thanks,
> Laszlo
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > Steven Shi
> > Intel\SSG\STO\UEFI Firmware
> >
> > Tel: +86 021-61166522
> > iNet: 821-6522
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of
> >> Laszlo Ersek
> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2017 9:07 PM
> >> To: edk2-devel-01 <edk2-devel@ml01.01.org>
> >> Cc: Tian, Feng <feng.tian@intel.com>; Justen, Jordan L
> >> <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>; Yao, Jiewen <jiewen.yao@intel.com>; Kinney,
> >> Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Fan, Jeff <jeff.fan@intel.com>;
> Zeng,
> >> Star <star.zeng@intel.com>
> >> Subject: [edk2] Testing SMM with QEMU, KVM and libvirt
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've added the following article to the TianoCore wiki:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Testing-SMM-with-
> >> QEMU,-KVM-and-libvirt
> >>
> >> It should help both Windows and Linux desktop users build a KVM test
> >> machine / environment that closely resembles mine. Such an environment
> >> is useful for testing and regression-testing new MP and SMM features and
> >> bugfixes.
> >>
> >> The initial setup is not short, but once you got it up and running, it's
> >> very simple to rebuild OVMF with the edk2 changes, install the firmware
> >> binary in the right place (see the article) and then click the Play
> >> button on the Fedora 25 and Windows 10 guests, to see the changes in
> action.
> >>
> >> If you have smaller updates or structural reorgs for the document,
> >> there's no need to ask me, just go ahead and do them.
> >>
> >> If some significant information is missing that you'd like me to add, I
> >> think I'd prefer new TianoCore BZs at this time (Product: Tianocore
> >> Feature Requests, Component: Web Content, Assignee: yours truly). I
> >> don't know when I'll have time again to dig into this.
> >>
> >> Sorry if I forgot someone off the CC list.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Laszlo
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