From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH qemu-server 3/3] ovmf: create temporary EFI disk below /run instead of /tmp to avoid migration issue
Date: Mon, 4 May 2026 15:03:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260504130751.226845-4-f.ebner@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260504130751.226845-1-f.ebner@proxmox.com>
As reported in the enterprise support, QEMU might fail to inactivate
the block node for the temporary EFI disk during migration:
> kvm: migration_block_inactivate: bdrv_inactivate_all() failed: -1
> kvm: Error in migration completion: Bad address
The issue occurs when the file for the temporary EFI disk has been
removed from the file system. This happens on new installations since
Debian Trixie [0], where files in /tmp are regularly cleaned.
Requires mocking file_copy() since unprivileged users are not allowed
to actually do the copying of the EFI vars to create the temporary EFI
disk. But there is no need to create the temporary test for the test
anyways.
[0]: https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.html#the-directories-tmp-and-var-tmp-are-now-regularly-cleaned
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
---
debian/tmpfiles | 5 +++--
src/PVE/QemuServer/OVMF.pm | 6 ++++--
src/test/cfg2cmd/efi-ovmf-without-efidisk.conf.cmd | 2 +-
src/test/run_config2command_tests.pl | 12 ++++++++++++
4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/debian/tmpfiles b/debian/tmpfiles
index 3bbe100c..978205f3 100644
--- a/debian/tmpfiles
+++ b/debian/tmpfiles
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-#Type Path Mode User Group Age Argument
-d /run/qemu-server 0750 root www-data - -
+#Type Path Mode User Group Age Argument
+d /run/qemu-server 0750 root www-data - -
+d /run/qemu-server/efidisk 0750 root www-data - -
diff --git a/src/PVE/QemuServer/OVMF.pm b/src/PVE/QemuServer/OVMF.pm
index f2faeb27..7a765fad 100644
--- a/src/PVE/QemuServer/OVMF.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/QemuServer/OVMF.pm
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ my $OVMF = {
},
};
+my $temporary_efidisk_dir = '/run/qemu-server/efidisk';
+
my sub get_ovmf_files($$$$) {
my ($arch, $efidisk, $smm, $cvm_type) = @_;
@@ -128,7 +130,7 @@ my sub print_ovmf_drive_commandlines {
$var_drive_str .= ',readonly=on' if $readonly;
} else {
log_warn("no efidisk configured! Using temporary efivars disk.");
- my $path = "/tmp/$vmid-ovmf.fd";
+ my $path = "${temporary_efidisk_dir}/${vmid}-ovmf.fd";
PVE::File::file_copy($ovmf_vars, $path, $ovmf_vars_size);
$var_drive_str .= ",format=raw,file=$path";
$var_drive_str .= ",size=" . $ovmf_vars_size if $version_guard->(4, 1, 2);
@@ -220,7 +222,7 @@ my sub generate_ovmf_blockdev {
}
} else {
log_warn("no efidisk configured! Using temporary efivars disk.");
- my $path = "/tmp/$vmid-ovmf.fd";
+ my $path = "${temporary_efidisk_dir}/${vmid}-ovmf.fd";
PVE::File::file_copy($ovmf_vars, $path, file_get_size($ovmf_vars));
$drive = { file => $path, interface => 'efidisk', index => 0 };
$format = 'raw';
diff --git a/src/test/cfg2cmd/efi-ovmf-without-efidisk.conf.cmd b/src/test/cfg2cmd/efi-ovmf-without-efidisk.conf.cmd
index 44362710..fdeb8ba5 100644
--- a/src/test/cfg2cmd/efi-ovmf-without-efidisk.conf.cmd
+++ b/src/test/cfg2cmd/efi-ovmf-without-efidisk.conf.cmd
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
-smbios 'type=1,uuid=7b10d7af-b932-4c66-b2c3-3996152ec465' \
-object '{"id":"throttle-drive-efidisk0","limits":{},"qom-type":"throttle-group"}' \
-blockdev '{"driver":"raw","file":{"driver":"file","filename":"/usr/share/pve-edk2-firmware//OVMF_CODE.fd"},"node-name":"pflash0","read-only":true}' \
- -blockdev '{"detect-zeroes":"on","discard":"ignore","driver":"throttle","file":{"cache":{"direct":false,"no-flush":false},"detect-zeroes":"on","discard":"ignore","driver":"raw","file":{"aio":"io_uring","cache":{"direct":false,"no-flush":false},"detect-zeroes":"on","discard":"ignore","driver":"file","filename":"/tmp/8006-ovmf.fd","node-name":"e5b5f7a29888341a35f0f1428e70ba5","read-only":false},"node-name":"f5b5f7a29888341a35f0f1428e70ba5","read-only":false,"size":131072},"node-name":"drive-efidisk0","read-only":false,"throttle-group":"throttle-drive-efidisk0"}' \
+ -blockdev '{"detect-zeroes":"on","discard":"ignore","driver":"throttle","file":{"cache":{"direct":false,"no-flush":false},"detect-zeroes":"on","discard":"ignore","driver":"raw","file":{"aio":"io_uring","cache":{"direct":false,"no-flush":false},"detect-zeroes":"on","discard":"ignore","driver":"file","filename":"/run/qemu-server/efidisk/8006-ovmf.fd","node-name":"e5ecb54a3863bf2f22d662c53f49ac4","read-only":false},"node-name":"f5ecb54a3863bf2f22d662c53f49ac4","read-only":false,"size":131072},"node-name":"drive-efidisk0","read-only":false,"throttle-group":"throttle-drive-efidisk0"}' \
-smp '1,sockets=1,cores=1,maxcpus=1' \
-nodefaults \
-boot 'menu=on,strict=on,reboot-timeout=1000,splash=/usr/share/qemu-server/bootsplash.jpg' \
diff --git a/src/test/run_config2command_tests.pl b/src/test/run_config2command_tests.pl
index 3c4a695c..ebe0dca1 100755
--- a/src/test/run_config2command_tests.pl
+++ b/src/test/run_config2command_tests.pl
@@ -420,6 +420,18 @@ $pve_common_tools->mock(
},
);
+my $pve_common_file;
+$pve_common_file = Test::MockModule->new('PVE::File');
+$pve_common_file->mock(
+ file_copy => sub {
+ my ($filename, $dst, $max, $perm) = @_;
+ if ($dst =~ m|^/run/qemu-server/efidisk|) {
+ return;
+ }
+ return $pve_common_file->original('file_copy')->($filename, $dst, $max, $perm);
+ },
+);
+
my $pve_cpuconfig;
$pve_cpuconfig = Test::MockModule->new('PVE::QemuServer::CPUConfig');
$pve_cpuconfig->mock(
--
2.47.3
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-04 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-04 13:03 [PATCH-SERIES qemu-server 0/3] ovmf: create temporary EFI disk below /run instead of /tmp to avoid migration issue Fiona Ebner
2026-05-04 13:03 ` [PATCH qemu-server 1/3] d/tmpfiles: add configuration to auto-create /run/qemu-server directory Fiona Ebner
2026-05-04 13:03 ` [PATCH qemu-server 2/3] ovmf: use file module directly for file_copy() Fiona Ebner
2026-05-04 13:03 ` Fiona Ebner [this message]
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