my host is a standard ubuntu 14.10 .
I have an arch vmware guest installation that boots from EFI (GPT) in the VMware vmplayer . It runs fine, but I would rather run an open vm emulator. I started with
# apt-get install qemu-img ovmf .
it is qemu version 2.1.0.
next, I did
$ qemu-img convert Virtual\ Disk.vmdk disk1.img
if only not to mess up my working vmware player guest after I fail. Then I tried various versions of
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -L /usr/share/seabios/ -m 4096 -hda disk1.img
with and without -L varieties. alas, it says "Booting from Hard Disk" and then goes on vacation.
am I missing something obvious? I have read for the last 2 hours various documents on the web about qemu and migration (many of which are out of date).
or is this simply a bridge to far? (will uefi support be integrated into qemu?)
I have an arch vmware guest installation that boots from EFI (GPT) in the VMware vmplayer . It runs fine, but I would rather run an open vm emulator. I started with
# apt-get install qemu-img ovmf .
it is qemu version 2.1.0.
next, I did
$ qemu-img convert Virtual\ Disk.vmdk disk1.img
if only not to mess up my working vmware player guest after I fail. Then I tried various versions of
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -L /usr/share/seabios/ -m 4096 -hda disk1.img
with and without -L varieties. alas, it says "Booting from Hard Disk" and then goes on vacation.
am I missing something obvious? I have read for the last 2 hours various documents on the web about qemu and migration (many of which are out of date).
or is this simply a bridge to far? (will uefi support be integrated into qemu?)