From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server 1/2] ovmf: use proper drive properties for temporary efi vars drive
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:38:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250721123829.85601-1-f.ebner@proxmox.com> (raw)
As reported in the community forum [0], a virtual machine using a
temporary EFI vars disk would fail to start:
> get_drive_id: no interface at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/QemuServer/Drive.pm line 864.
[0]: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/168628/
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
---
src/PVE/QemuServer/OVMF.pm | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/PVE/QemuServer/OVMF.pm b/src/PVE/QemuServer/OVMF.pm
index aa21c40c..9789c2fb 100644
--- a/src/PVE/QemuServer/OVMF.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/QemuServer/OVMF.pm
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ my sub generate_ovmf_blockdev {
log_warn("no efidisk configured! Using temporary efivars disk.");
my $path = "/tmp/$vmid-ovmf.fd";
PVE::Tools::file_copy($ovmf_vars, $path, -s $ovmf_vars);
- $drive = { file => $path };
+ $drive = { file => $path, interface => 'efidisk', index => 0 };
$format = 'raw';
}
--
2.47.2
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2025-07-21 12:38 Fiona Ebner [this message]
2025-07-21 12:38 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server 2/2] drive: get_drive_id: terminate error messages with newline Fiona Ebner
2025-07-21 13:23 ` [pve-devel] applied: [PATCH qemu-server 1/2] ovmf: use proper drive properties for temporary efi vars drive Thomas Lamprecht
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