Re: Newbie: Getting Ovmf built

[Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org>]

On Friday, 23 November 2018 17:40:15 MST stephano wrote:

> We have a set of simple instructions for folks building on standard
> Linux distros. Please have a look at this page:
> 
> https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Common-instructions
> 
> Note: Be sure the TARGET_ARCH is set correctly. (E.g. TARGET_ARCH = x64)

If you just want to build OVMF, there's a simpler way. After cloning, and 
assuming you're running bash, just:

cd edk2
. ./edksetup.sh
./OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 -t GCC5 -b RELEASE

If the build succeeds you'll end up with Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_GCC5/FV/OVMF.fd 
which is the 'BIOS' image to pass to Qemu, e.g.:

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 4g -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=Build/
OvmfX64/RELEASE_GCC5/FV/OVMF.fd \
        -nodefaults \
        -drive format=raw,file=/hda.img -monitor stdio \
        -vga std -sdl -drive format=raw,file=Install.iso

-- 
Rebecca