Work around a bug in Ovmf that causes Ovmf to crash on startup
when running in recent versions of Qemu. Setting the cpu model
to something older, for example "Broadwell" works around the issue.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Steffen <ostef...@redhat.com>
---
OvmfPkg/PlatformCI/PlatformBuildLib.py | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/OvmfPkg/PlatformCI/PlatformBuildLib.py
b/OvmfPkg/PlatformCI/PlatformBuildLib.py
index bfef9849c749..93f7d7aa13d6 100644
--- a/OvmfPkg/PlatformCI/PlatformBuildLib.py
+++ b/OvmfPkg/PlatformCI/PlatformBuildLib.py
@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ class PlatformBuilder( UefiBuilder, BuildSettingsManager):
cmd = "qemu-system-x86_64"
args = "-debugcon stdio" #
write messages to stdio
args += " -global isa-debugcon.iobase=0x402" #
debug messages out thru virtual io port
+ args += " -cpu Broadwell" #
workaround Qvmf bug
args += " -net none" #
turn off network
args += f" -drive file=fat:rw:{VirtualDrive},format=raw,media=disk" #
Mount disk with startup.nsh
--
2.39.0
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