Re: how does qemu generate the path from 60-edk2-x86_64.json?

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Hi Dagg,

On 1/30/21 12:16 PM, daggs wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I was wondering how qemu generates the path for edk2-x86_64-code.fd from from 
> 60-edk2-x86_64.json
> the file contains this: "filename": "share/qemu/edk2-x86_64-code.fd",
> however the real path is /usr/share/qemu/edk2-x86_64-code.fd.
> 
> where does the /usr prefix comes?
> the reason I'm asking is because I have two servers with the same version 
> (5.2.0), both running gentoo.
> when I'm trying to boot an uefi guest on one, it works, but on the other I'm 
> getting this error:
> error: Path 'share/qemu/edk2-x86_64-secure-code.fd' is not accessible: No 
> such file or directory
> if I change the path to /usr/share/qemu/edk2-x86_64-code.fd in 
> edk2-x86_64-code.fd, the vm boots again,
> 
> I've found this https://bugs.gentoo.org/766743 however I'd assume this will 
> happen every time or when it happens nothing will depend on /usr
> 
> any ideas?

Sergei sent a fix provided by Jannik for this problem:
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg777753.html

Regards,

Phil.