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Hey there ... a question about UEFI booting of VMs.
i.e.

glance image-create --file cloud-2730. qcow --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --property “hw-firmware-type=uefi” --name clear-linux-image

in order to specify that you want to use UEFI (instead of BIOS) when booting VMs with this image
i.e.    /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd
          /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_VARS.fd

and I believe you can boot into the UEFI Shell, i.e. to change UEFI variables in NVRAM (OVMF_VARS.fd) by
booting VM with /usr/share/OVMF/UefiShell.iso in cd ...
e.g. to changes Secure Boot keys or something like that.

My QUESTION ...

·         how does NOVA manage a unique instance of OVMF_VARS.fd for each instance ?

o    i believe OVMF_VARS.fd is suppose to just be used as a template, and
is supposed to be copied to make a unique instance for each VM that UEFI boots

o    how does NOVA manage this ?

§  e.g. is the unique instance of OVMF_VARS.fd created in
         /etc/nova/instances/<UUID>/  ?

o    ... and does this get migrated to another compute if VM is migrated ?

Greg.

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