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randomperson11

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Registered: 2024-12-09

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] Missing ovmf binaries

Hello, I need to run virtual machines with uefi firmware, currently trying to use qemu, the qemu-full and ovmf packages are installed on my machine (vanilla arch) but running (please excuse the lack of formatting)
find / | grep "ovmf"
outputs:

usr/share/ovmf
/usr/share/doc/edk2-ovmf
/usr/share/doc/edk2-ovmf/Maintainers.txt
/usr/share/doc/edk2-ovmf/README
/usr/share/doc/edk2-ovmf/ReadMe.rst
/usr/share/edk2-ovmf
/usr/share/qemu/firmware/50-edk2-ovmf-x86_64-secure-4m.json
/usr/share/qemu/firmware/50-edk2-ovmf-i386-secure-4m.json
/usr/share/qemu/firmware/80-edk2-ovmf-ia32-on-x86_64-secure-4m.json
/usr/share/qemu/firmware/81-edk2-ovmf-ia32-on-x86_64-4m.json
/usr/share/qemu/firmware/60-edk2-ovmf-i386-4m.json
/usr/share/qemu/firmware/60-edk2-ovmf-microvm-4m.json
/usr/share/qemu/firmware/60-edk2-ovmf-x86_64-4m.json
/usr/share/licenses/edk2-ovmf
/usr/share/licenses/edk2-ovmf/OvmfPkg.License.txt
/usr/share/licenses/edk2-ovmf/License.txt
find: '/proc/1568/task/1568/net': Invalid argument
find: '/proc/1568/net': Invalid argument
find: '/run/user/1000/doc': Permission denied
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/edk2-ovmf-202408-2-any.pkg.tar.zst.sig
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/edk2-ovmf-202411-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/edk2-ovmf-202311-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/edk2-ovmf-202311-1-any.pkg.tar.zst.sig
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/edk2-ovmf-202408-2-any.pkg.tar.zst
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/edk2-ovmf-202411-1-any.pkg.tar.zst.sig
/var/lib/pacman/local/edk2-ovmf-202411-1
/var/lib/pacman/local/edk2-ovmf-202411-1/desc
/var/lib/pacman/local/edk2-ovmf-202411-1/mtree
/var/lib/pacman/local/edk2-ovmf-202411-1/install
/var/lib/pacman/local/edk2-ovmf-202411-1/files

and I was expecting to see some files like .../OVMF-x64.bin since that is what I remember from command line threads on the web.
The readme is development geared and there is only one package in the db at archlinux.org/packages...
What do I do here to get a file passable to qemu's -bios flag?

Last edited by randomperson11 (2024-12-09 16:46:05)

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,311

Re: [SOLVED] Missing ovmf binaries

Welcome to the arch linux forums.

THe files are not listed because grep is case sensitive. You do not need find/grep, though. just list the package contents:

 pacman -Ql edk2-ovmf

The wiki has also some information: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unifie … ve_support

Last edited by progandy (2024-12-09 16:34:18)

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randomperson11

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Registered: 2024-12-09

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] Missing ovmf binaries

Thank you for the help!