GitHub user alsko-icom added a comment to the discussion: Starting instances in a domain other than root fails,
-My testing environment is new but my server hardware is old (2012 and 2014). All my VMs and templates are based on ubuntu20-22, debian12, windows 2022, all using uefi secure. Nowhere bios except for the system VM template (centos5.5). -Cannot find how to change to bios. Only options available are name, display name, os type, dynamically scalable, ha enabled, group, delete protection. Plus a few under instance settings. (like UEFI secure or legacy). I think since they were created using uefi and secure boot, they cannot switch to bios now based on the boot partition within the VM, no? -I created a symlink for OVMF_CODE.cc.fd and added it to the uefi.properties so all entries have a working value! (My file ends with cc.fd, line 4) guest.nvram.template.secure=/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_VARS.secboot.fd guest.nvram.template.legacy=/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_VARS.fd guest.loader.secure=/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.secboot.fd guest.loader.legacy=/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.cc.fd guest.nvram.path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/ I will re-install VMs with uefi (i am thinking not secure boot this time) and copy them to templates. (help! how can i delete old templates? no delete button...) After enabling the uefi-properties file and restarting the agent, some old centos system template based VM starts fine. All the VMs I created based on my iso and templates either cannot start or start but cannot boot. They are all based on uefi firmware and secure boot. Enabling the uefi.properties what does it really do? Do i need it? It is the only way for a tenant (subdomain) admin or user to start uefi secure or insecure VMs? I am asking because all my uefi instances worked fine prior to enabling it. Also do you think I need a uefi storage pool as defined for Alma while i am running rhel8? (https://www.siberoloji.com/set-uefi-boot-kvm-virtual-machines-almalinux/) Thanks again for all your time and clarifications! GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/discussions/10430#discussioncomment-12461648 ---- This is an automatically sent email for users@cloudstack.apache.org. To unsubscribe, please send an email to: users-unsubscr...@cloudstack.apache.org
