question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp

question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp

[Junhao Gao]

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Hi edk2 members

               I have a question for your help.
               I want to enable qemu+kvm+ovmf to boot up windows xp, then ovmf support winxp starting-up?
               qemu command:
               qemu-system-x86_64 -hda winxp.img -boot c -enable-kvm -cpu host -bios ./OVMF.fd -m 512 -vga cirrus -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user -usbdevice tablet -localtime
               Then if ovmf support, could you provide me the way to compile the OVMF.fd?

Thanks,
Junhao


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Re: [edk2-devel] question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 10/10/19 16:37, Junhao Gao wrote:
> Hi edk2 members
>
>                I have a question for your help.
>                I want to enable qemu+kvm+ovmf to boot up windows xp,
>                then ovmf support winxp starting-up?

To my understanding, the first Windows "family" with any kind of UEFI
support is Windows 7.

OvmfPkg/README has some comments on Windows support:

> * UEFI Windows 8 boots
> * UEFI Windows 7 & Windows 2008 Server boot (see important notes below!)

and

> === UEFI Windows 7 & Windows 2008 Server ===
>
> * One of the '-vga std' and '-vga qxl' QEMU options should be used.
> * Only one video mode, 1024x768x32, is supported at OS runtime.
> * The '-vga qxl' QEMU option is recommended. After booting the installed
>   guest OS, select the video card in Device Manager, and upgrade its driver
>   to the QXL XDDM one. Download location:
>   <http://www.spice-space.org/download.html>, Guest | Windows binaries.
>   This enables further resolutions at OS runtime, and provides S3
>   (suspend/resume) capability.

If you'd like to virtualize Windows XP on QEMU/KVM, please use SeaBIOS for
guest firmware.

You can also try to build OVMF with -D CSM_ENABLE, but for that, you'll
have to build SeaBIOS in CSM mode first, and embed that binary into OVMF
at build time. Please ask David for details (CC'd).

Thanks
Laszlo

>                qemu command:
>                qemu-system-x86_64 -hda winxp.img -boot c -enable-kvm -cpu host -bios ./OVMF.fd -m 512 -vga cirrus -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user -usbdevice tablet -localtime
>                Then if ovmf support, could you provide me the way to compile the OVMF.fd?
>
> Thanks,
> Junhao
>
>
> 
>
>

Re: [edk2-devel] question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp

[Junhao Gao]

Hi Laszlo
	Thank you very much for your great support.

Hi David
	Refer to http://www.linux-kvm.org/downloads/lersek/ovmf-whitepaper-c770f8c.txt.

	Interested users and developers should look for OVMF's "-D CSM_ENABLE"
	build-time option, and check out the <https://www.kraxel.org/repos/> continuous
	integration repository, which provides CSM-enabled OVMF builds.
	
	Could you help me to choose which branch supporting CSM, and more details, thanks very much.

Thanks,
Junhao

-----Original Message-----
From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Laszlo Ersek
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 2:11 AM
To: Gao, Junhao <junhao.gao@intel.com>
Cc: devel@edk2.groups.io; David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp

On 10/10/19 16:37, Junhao Gao wrote:
> Hi edk2 members
>
>                I have a question for your help.
>                I want to enable qemu+kvm+ovmf to boot up windows xp,
>                then ovmf support winxp starting-up?

To my understanding, the first Windows "family" with any kind of UEFI support is Windows 7.

OvmfPkg/README has some comments on Windows support:

> * UEFI Windows 8 boots
> * UEFI Windows 7 & Windows 2008 Server boot (see important notes 
> below!)

and

> === UEFI Windows 7 & Windows 2008 Server ===
>
> * One of the '-vga std' and '-vga qxl' QEMU options should be used.
> * Only one video mode, 1024x768x32, is supported at OS runtime.
> * The '-vga qxl' QEMU option is recommended. After booting the installed
>   guest OS, select the video card in Device Manager, and upgrade its driver
>   to the QXL XDDM one. Download location:
>   <http://www.spice-space.org/download.html>, Guest | Windows binaries.
>   This enables further resolutions at OS runtime, and provides S3
>   (suspend/resume) capability.

If you'd like to virtualize Windows XP on QEMU/KVM, please use SeaBIOS for guest firmware.

You can also try to build OVMF with -D CSM_ENABLE, but for that, you'll have to build SeaBIOS in CSM mode first, and embed that binary into OVMF at build time. Please ask David for details (CC'd).

Thanks
Laszlo

>                qemu command:
>                qemu-system-x86_64 -hda winxp.img -boot c -enable-kvm -cpu host -bios ./OVMF.fd -m 512 -vga cirrus -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user -usbdevice tablet -localtime
>                Then if ovmf support, could you provide me the way to compile the OVMF.fd?
>
> Thanks,
> Junhao
>
>
> 
>
>

Re: [edk2-devel] question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp

[Junhao Gao]

Hi David 

	I have found this compiled OVMF-with-csm.fd can support winxp booting up.
	OVMF-with-csm.fd path: https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/seabios/seabios.git-csm-1.12.0-33.63.g43f5df7.x86_64.rpm
	Then could you help to provide me the compile method and base code to reproduce this OVMF-with-csm.fd?

Thanks,
Junhao 

-----Original Message-----
From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Junhao Gao
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 9:33 AM
To: devel@edk2.groups.io; lersek@redhat.com
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp

Hi Laszlo
	Thank you very much for your great support.

Hi David
	Refer to http://www.linux-kvm.org/downloads/lersek/ovmf-whitepaper-c770f8c.txt.

	Interested users and developers should look for OVMF's "-D CSM_ENABLE"
	build-time option, and check out the <https://www.kraxel.org/repos/> continuous
	integration repository, which provides CSM-enabled OVMF builds.
	
	Could you help me to choose which branch supporting CSM, and more details, thanks very much.

Thanks,
Junhao

-----Original Message-----
From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Laszlo Ersek
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 2:11 AM
To: Gao, Junhao <junhao.gao@intel.com>
Cc: devel@edk2.groups.io; David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp

On 10/10/19 16:37, Junhao Gao wrote:
> Hi edk2 members
>
>                I have a question for your help.
>                I want to enable qemu+kvm+ovmf to boot up windows xp,
>                then ovmf support winxp starting-up?

To my understanding, the first Windows "family" with any kind of UEFI support is Windows 7.

OvmfPkg/README has some comments on Windows support:

> * UEFI Windows 8 boots
> * UEFI Windows 7 & Windows 2008 Server boot (see important notes 
> below!)

and

> === UEFI Windows 7 & Windows 2008 Server ===
>
> * One of the '-vga std' and '-vga qxl' QEMU options should be used.
> * Only one video mode, 1024x768x32, is supported at OS runtime.
> * The '-vga qxl' QEMU option is recommended. After booting the installed
>   guest OS, select the video card in Device Manager, and upgrade its driver
>   to the QXL XDDM one. Download location:
>   <http://www.spice-space.org/download.html>, Guest | Windows binaries.
>   This enables further resolutions at OS runtime, and provides S3
>   (suspend/resume) capability.

If you'd like to virtualize Windows XP on QEMU/KVM, please use SeaBIOS for guest firmware.

You can also try to build OVMF with -D CSM_ENABLE, but for that, you'll have to build SeaBIOS in CSM mode first, and embed that binary into OVMF at build time. Please ask David for details (CC'd).

Thanks
Laszlo

>                qemu command:
>                qemu-system-x86_64 -hda winxp.img -boot c -enable-kvm -cpu host -bios ./OVMF.fd -m 512 -vga cirrus -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user -usbdevice tablet -localtime
>                Then if ovmf support, could you provide me the way to compile the OVMF.fd?
>
> Thanks,
> Junhao
>
>
> 
>
>

Re: [edk2-devel] question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 10/11/19 09:44, Gao, Junhao wrote:
> Hi David 
> 
> 	I have found this compiled OVMF-with-csm.fd can support winxp booting up.
> 	OVMF-with-csm.fd path: https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/seabios/seabios.git-csm-1.12.0-33.63.g43f5df7.x86_64.rpm
> 	Then could you help to provide me the compile method and base code to reproduce this OVMF-with-csm.fd?

Ah, good point, I should have remembered that Gerd offers a CSM build in
his repo!

So, you can easily look up the build instructions, in Gerd's SeaBIOS and
OVMF RPM "spec" files. Check out these git repositories:

  https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/seabios/
  https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/edk2/

Specifically:

  https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/seabios/tree/seabios.git.spec
  https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/edk2/tree/edk2.git.spec.template

HTH,
Laszlo


> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Junhao Gao
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 9:33 AM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; lersek@redhat.com
> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp
> 
> Hi Laszlo
> 	Thank you very much for your great support.
> 
> Hi David
> 	Refer to http://www.linux-kvm.org/downloads/lersek/ovmf-whitepaper-c770f8c.txt.
> 
> 	Interested users and developers should look for OVMF's "-D CSM_ENABLE"
> 	build-time option, and check out the <https://www.kraxel.org/repos/> continuous
> 	integration repository, which provides CSM-enabled OVMF builds.
> 	
> 	Could you help me to choose which branch supporting CSM, and more details, thanks very much.
> 
> Thanks,
> Junhao
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Laszlo Ersek
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 2:11 AM
> To: Gao, Junhao <junhao.gao@intel.com>
> Cc: devel@edk2.groups.io; David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp
> 
> On 10/10/19 16:37, Junhao Gao wrote:
>> Hi edk2 members
>>
>>                I have a question for your help.
>>                I want to enable qemu+kvm+ovmf to boot up windows xp,
>>                then ovmf support winxp starting-up?
> 
> To my understanding, the first Windows "family" with any kind of UEFI support is Windows 7.
> 
> OvmfPkg/README has some comments on Windows support:
> 
>> * UEFI Windows 8 boots
>> * UEFI Windows 7 & Windows 2008 Server boot (see important notes 
>> below!)
> 
> and
> 
>> === UEFI Windows 7 & Windows 2008 Server ===
>>
>> * One of the '-vga std' and '-vga qxl' QEMU options should be used.
>> * Only one video mode, 1024x768x32, is supported at OS runtime.
>> * The '-vga qxl' QEMU option is recommended. After booting the installed
>>   guest OS, select the video card in Device Manager, and upgrade its driver
>>   to the QXL XDDM one. Download location:
>>   <http://www.spice-space.org/download.html>, Guest | Windows binaries.
>>   This enables further resolutions at OS runtime, and provides S3
>>   (suspend/resume) capability.
> 
> If you'd like to virtualize Windows XP on QEMU/KVM, please use SeaBIOS for guest firmware.
> 
> You can also try to build OVMF with -D CSM_ENABLE, but for that, you'll have to build SeaBIOS in CSM mode first, and embed that binary into OVMF at build time. Please ask David for details (CC'd).
> 
> Thanks
> Laszlo
> 
>>                qemu command:
>>                qemu-system-x86_64 -hda winxp.img -boot c -enable-kvm -cpu host -bios ./OVMF.fd -m 512 -vga cirrus -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user -usbdevice tablet -localtime
>>                Then if ovmf support, could you provide me the way to compile the OVMF.fd?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Junhao
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Re: [edk2-devel] question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp

[David Woodhouse]

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On Fri, 2019-10-11 at 16:27 +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 10/11/19 09:44, Gao, Junhao wrote:
> > Hi David 
> > 
> >        I have found this compiled OVMF-with-csm.fd can support winxp booting up.
> >        OVMF-with-csm.fd path: https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/seabios/seabios.git-csm-1.12.0-33.63.g43f5df7.x86_64.rpm
> >        Then could you help to provide me the compile method and base code to reproduce this OVMF-with-csm.fd?
> 
> Ah, good point, I should have remembered that Gerd offers a CSM build in
> his repo!
> 
> So, you can easily look up the build instructions, in Gerd's SeaBIOS and
> OVMF RPM "spec" files. Check out these git repositories:
> 
>   https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/seabios/
>   https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/edk2/
> 
> Specifically:
> 
>   https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/seabios/tree/seabios.git.spec
>   https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/edk2/tree/edk2.git.spec.template

Right, thanks.

Ultimately it's as simple as:

 • Build SeaBIOS with CONFIG_CSM
 • Drop the resulting Csm16.bin into OvmfPkg/Csm/Csm16/ in the EDK2 tree
 • Build EDK2 with -DCSM_ENABLE

Someone else mailed me recently to say they'd copied the Csm packages
over from OvmfPkg to Quark and had Windows booting on Galileo boards.  

Hm, I wonder if we should move the CSM support out of OVMF and into
somewhere more generic, since it really is generic and not platform-
specific?

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Re: [edk2-devel] question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp

[Junhao Gao]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 10:36 PM
> To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>; Gao, Junhao <junhao.gao@intel.com>;
> devel@edk2.groups.io
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp
> 
> On Fri, 2019-10-11 at 16:27 +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> > On 10/11/19 09:44, Gao, Junhao wrote:
> > > Hi David
> > >
> > >        I have found this compiled OVMF-with-csm.fd can support winxp booting
> up.
> > >        OVMF-with-csm.fd path:
> https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/seabios/seabios.git-csm-1.12.0-
> 33.63.g43f5df7.x86_64.rpm
> > >        Then could you help to provide me the compile method and base code to
> reproduce this OVMF-with-csm.fd?
> >
> > Ah, good point, I should have remembered that Gerd offers a CSM build in
> > his repo!
> >
> > So, you can easily look up the build instructions, in Gerd's SeaBIOS and
> > OVMF RPM "spec" files. Check out these git repositories:
> >
> >   https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/seabios/
> >   https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/edk2/
> >
> > Specifically:
> >
> >   https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/seabios/tree/seabios.git.spec
> >   https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/edk2/tree/edk2.git.spec.template
> 
> Right, thanks.
> 
> Ultimately it's as simple as:
> 
>  • Build SeaBIOS with CONFIG_CSM
>  • Drop the resulting Csm16.bin into OvmfPkg/Csm/Csm16/ in the EDK2 tree
>  • Build EDK2 with -DCSM_ENABLE
> 

Thanks David, follow these steps, I can reproduce the OVMF-with-csm.fd.
However, I find that when I choose remotes/origin/master branch, after compiling, qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp can't 
boot up, but when I choose remotes/origin/UDK2018, the compiled OVMF.fd can work.
So the latest edk2 code have removed CSM support? Could I apply the CSM patch to 
the latest edk2 code to support my work because our project is based on the latest EDK2 code, thanks.

> Someone else mailed me recently to say they'd copied the Csm packages
> over from OvmfPkg to Quark and had Windows booting on Galileo boards.
> 
> Hm, I wonder if we should move the CSM support out of OVMF and into
> somewhere more generic, since it really is generic and not platform-
> specific?

I can't make some decisions, from my view, maybe CSM module can be 
an independent patch for user to apply or reject :)

Re: [edk2-devel] question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp

[Andrew Fish]

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Junhao

FYI there is a regression in master for OVFM right now: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2266 so you might be hitting that.

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

> On Oct 11, 2019, at 11:13 PM, Junhao Gao <junhao.gao@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org <mailto:dwmw2@infradead.org>>
>> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 10:36 PM
>> To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com <mailto:lersek@redhat.com>>; Gao, Junhao <junhao.gao@intel.com <mailto:junhao.gao@intel.com>>;
>> devel@edk2.groups.io <mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io>
>> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp
>> 
>> On Fri, 2019-10-11 at 16:27 +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>>> On 10/11/19 09:44, Gao, Junhao wrote:
>>>> Hi David
>>>> 
>>>>       I have found this compiled OVMF-with-csm.fd can support winxp booting
>> up.
>>>>       OVMF-with-csm.fd path:
>> https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/seabios/seabios.git-csm-1.12.0-
>> 33.63.g43f5df7.x86_64.rpm
>>>>       Then could you help to provide me the compile method and base code to
>> reproduce this OVMF-with-csm.fd?
>>> 
>>> Ah, good point, I should have remembered that Gerd offers a CSM build in
>>> his repo!
>>> 
>>> So, you can easily look up the build instructions, in Gerd's SeaBIOS and
>>> OVMF RPM "spec" files. Check out these git repositories:
>>> 
>>>  https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/seabios/
>>>  https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/edk2/
>>> 
>>> Specifically:
>>> 
>>>  https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/seabios/tree/seabios.git.spec
>>>  https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/edk2/tree/edk2.git.spec.template
>> 
>> Right, thanks.
>> 
>> Ultimately it's as simple as:
>> 
>> • Build SeaBIOS with CONFIG_CSM
>> • Drop the resulting Csm16.bin into OvmfPkg/Csm/Csm16/ in the EDK2 tree
>> • Build EDK2 with -DCSM_ENABLE
>> 
> 
> Thanks David, follow these steps, I can reproduce the OVMF-with-csm.fd.
> However, I find that when I choose remotes/origin/master branch, after compiling, qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp can't 
> boot up, but when I choose remotes/origin/UDK2018, the compiled OVMF.fd can work.
> So the latest edk2 code have removed CSM support? Could I apply the CSM patch to 
> the latest edk2 code to support my work because our project is based on the latest EDK2 code, thanks.
> 
>> Someone else mailed me recently to say they'd copied the Csm packages
>> over from OvmfPkg to Quark and had Windows booting on Galileo boards.
>> 
>> Hm, I wonder if we should move the CSM support out of OVMF and into
>> somewhere more generic, since it really is generic and not platform-
>> specific?
> 
> I can't make some decisions, from my view, maybe CSM module can be 
> an independent patch for user to apply or reject :)
> 
> 


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Re: [edk2-devel] question about qemu+kvm+ovmf+winxp

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 10/11/19 16:35, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-10-11 at 16:27 +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> On 10/11/19 09:44, Gao, Junhao wrote:
>>> Hi David 
>>>
>>>        I have found this compiled OVMF-with-csm.fd can support winxp booting up.
>>>        OVMF-with-csm.fd path: https://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/seabios/seabios.git-csm-1.12.0-33.63.g43f5df7.x86_64.rpm
>>>        Then could you help to provide me the compile method and base code to reproduce this OVMF-with-csm.fd?
>>
>> Ah, good point, I should have remembered that Gerd offers a CSM build in
>> his repo!
>>
>> So, you can easily look up the build instructions, in Gerd's SeaBIOS and
>> OVMF RPM "spec" files. Check out these git repositories:
>>
>>   https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/seabios/
>>   https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/edk2/
>>
>> Specifically:
>>
>>   https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/seabios/tree/seabios.git.spec
>>   https://git.kraxel.org/cgit/jenkins/edk2/tree/edk2.git.spec.template
> 
> Right, thanks.
> 
> Ultimately it's as simple as:
> 
>  • Build SeaBIOS with CONFIG_CSM
>  • Drop the resulting Csm16.bin into OvmfPkg/Csm/Csm16/ in the EDK2 tree
>  • Build EDK2 with -DCSM_ENABLE
> 
> Someone else mailed me recently to say they'd copied the Csm packages
> over from OvmfPkg to Quark and had Windows booting on Galileo boards.  
> 
> Hm, I wonder if we should move the CSM support out of OVMF and into
> somewhere more generic, since it really is generic and not platform-
> specific?

We moved the CSM infrastructure under OvmfPkg because IntelFrameworkPkg
/ IntelFrameworkModulePkg were slated for removal, and this was how we
could salvage the CSM:

https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1811

We could likely move it out of OVMF, but if the destination is still the
edk2 tree -- which I would strongly prefer, as long as we support the
CSM at all --, then it will take a new top level directory (CsmPkg, for
example).

No other package maintainer was willing to maintain the CSM, and even
under OvmfPkg, I agreed to it only if you'd assume its reviewership. So
now you'd likely have to introduce CsmPkg, and become its sole (or
primary) maintainer.

I'm 100% OK with that. (Both as OvmfPkg co-maintainer, and as one of the
stewards that might have to ACK (I think?...) the creation of another
top-level directory).

Thanks
Laszlo