June 2015 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Qemu on Livirt: extra/ovmf being useless
by Martti Kühne 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

Godday I was trying to make EFI booting work on qemu using the GUI that comes with libvirt. I went ahead installing extra/ovmf. I struggled a bit, since the injection of EFI firmware into qemu is not accessible through libvirt and found /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf to be the place to set it up. However any setup guide to the nvram array gets to have 2 arguments split by a colon, where I just could not figure out what to put in the second spot. I went ahead trying ovmf-svn from AUR, which "works", in that it ships two files, one before (ovmf_code_${short_arch}.bin) and another for after the colon (ovmf_vars_${short_arch}.bin). I just haven't got that one to boot from hard drive yet either. That part though, I'm confident to figure out eventually. My question focuses around the extra/ovmf bit, which in the case of libvirt doesn't appear to ship all the necessary pieces. Does the packager have a working recipe to set up extra/ovmf available under libvirt? Is it possible to store one's UEFI vars per box? cheers! mar77i

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[arch-general] traceroute package
by schaeferpp＠lekkerleben.de 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

Hello, We've found a inconsistency with the traceroute installation and it's manpage. The manpage says 'traceroute6 is an equivalent to traceroute -6', but in arch linux this does not work. It this by design? Thank you. Paul Schaefer

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[arch-general] Archlinux, kernel 4.x , VMware Workstation 11
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

Hi all, I'm heavily using VMware workstation 11 and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware states about https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware#3.19_kernels_and_up kernel 3.19 and up. When upgrading my system, I'm prompted to upgrade to 4.x kernels Is the provided patch (http://pastie.org/pastes/9934018/download) working for 4.x kernels ? Thank you. Note: I did not use https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vmware-patch/

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