Re: [edk2-devel] regarding calling UEFI runtime services (mainly SetVariable) from linux or android OS which is running on xen+tianocore UEFI

[ritul guru <ritul.bits@gmail.com>]

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ohh, it should retains value on VM reboot.

//
// Allocate storage for NV variables early on so it will be
// at a consistent address. Since VM memory is preserved
// across reboots, this allows the NV variable storage to survive
// a VM reboot.
//



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On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 11:55 PM ritul guru <ritul.bits@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks,
> so as it is memory, does it mean if anything written in variable store,
> and VM reboot happens then variable store will be flushed?
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> *Thanks & RegardsRitul Guru+91-9916513186*
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> On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 11:47 PM Andrew (EFI) Fish <afish@apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 6, 2023, at 8:06 AM, ritul guru <ritul.bits@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I have been using xen hypervisor and tianocore uefi BIOS on xen to boot
>> to ubuntu OS on virtualized disk.
>> and want to set a UEFI variable with UEFI runtime service SetVariable()
>> to a value and the same wants to read from UEFI bootloader either
>> grubx64.efi or botmgfw.efi,
>> So, Is it possible to use runtime services to do such an operation for OS
>> running on VM when booted with OVMF/tianocore BIOS on VM guest?
>> If so, where does this variable gets stored? is it in some virtualized
>> disk as there is no virtualized SPIROM available to VM.
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>> I don’t know the Xen specifics, but the firmware maps in a Flash Device
>> (FD) here:
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>> [image: edk2.png]
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>> edk2/OvmfXen.fdf at master · tianocore/edk2
>> <https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/OvmfPkg/OvmfXen.fdf>
>> github.com
>> <https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/OvmfPkg/OvmfXen.fdf>
>> <https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/OvmfPkg/OvmfXen.fdf>
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>> Oh looks like it uses an emulated variable store that is just memory. See
>> ReserveEmuVariableNvStore().
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>> [image: edk2.png]
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>> edk2/Platform.c at master · tianocore/edk2
>> <https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/OvmfPkg/XenPlatformPei/Platform.c#L365>
>> github.com
>> <https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/OvmfPkg/XenPlatformPei/Platform.c#L365>
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>> <https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/OvmfPkg/XenPlatformPei/Platform.c#L365>
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>> Thanks,
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>> Andrew Fish
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>> https://wiki.osdev.org/Using_UEFI_Runtime_Services_in_your_Kernel
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>> *Thanks & RegardsRitul Guru+91-9916513186*
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