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2=== OVMF OVERVIEW ===\r
3\r
4The Open Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF) project aims\r
5to support firmware for Virtual Machines using the edk2\r
6code base. More information can be found at:\r
7\r
8http://www.tianocore.org/ovmf/\r
9\r
10=== STATUS ===\r
11\r
12Current capabilities:\r
13* IA32 and X64 architectures\r
14* QEMU (version 1.7.1 or later, with 1.7 or later machine types)\r
15 - Video, keyboard, IDE, CD-ROM, serial\r
16 - Runs UEFI shell\r
17 - Optional NIC support.\r
18* UEFI Linux boots\r
19* UEFI Windows 8 boots\r
20* UEFI Windows 7 & Windows 2008 Server boot (see important notes below!)\r
21\r
22=== FUTURE PLANS ===\r
23\r
24* Test/Stabilize UEFI Self-Certification Tests (SCT) results\r
25\r
26=== BUILDING OVMF ===\r
27\r
28Pre-requisites:\r
29* Build environment capable of build the edk2 MdeModulePkg.\r
30* A properly configured ASL compiler:\r
31 - Intel ASL compiler: Available from http://www.acpica.org\r
32 - Microsoft ASL compiler: Available from http://www.acpi.info\r
33* NASM: http://www.nasm.us/\r
34\r
35Update Conf/target.txt ACTIVE_PLATFORM for OVMF:\r
36 PEI arch DXE arch UEFI interfaces\r
37* OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc IA32 IA32 IA32\r
38* OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc IA32 X64 X64\r
39* OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc X64 X64 X64\r
40\r
41Update Conf/target.txt TARGET_ARCH based on the .dsc file:\r
42 TARGET_ARCH\r
43* OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc IA32\r
44* OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc IA32 X64\r
45* OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc X64\r
46\r
47Following the edk2 build process, you will find the OVMF binaries\r
48under the $WORKSPACE/Build/*/*/FV directory. The actual path will\r
49depend on how your build is configured. You can expect to find\r
50these binary outputs:\r
51* OVMF.FD\r
52 - Please note! This filename has changed. Older releases used OVMF.Fv.\r
53* OvmfVideo.rom\r
54 - This file is not built separately any longer, starting with svn r13520.\r
55\r
56If you are new to building in edk2 or looking for the latest build\r
57instructions, visit https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Build-Instructions\r
58\r
59More OVMF-specific build information can be found at:\r
60\r
61https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/How%20to%20build%20OVMF\r
62\r
63=== RUNNING OVMF on QEMU ===\r
64\r
65* Be sure to use qemu-system-x86_64, if you are using an X64 firmware.\r
66 (qemu-system-x86_64 works for the IA32 firmware as well, of course.)\r
67* Use OVMF for QEMU firmware (3 options available)\r
68 - Option 1: Use QEMU -pflash parameter\r
69 * QEMU/OVMF will use emulated flash, and fully support UEFI variables\r
70 * Run qemu with: -pflash path/to/OVMF.fd\r
71 * Note that this option is required for running SecureBoot-enabled builds\r
72 (-D SECURE_BOOT_ENABLE).\r
73 - Option 2: Use QEMU -bios parameter\r
74 * Note that UEFI variables will be partially emulated, and non-volatile\r
75 variables may lose their contents after a reboot\r
76 * Run qemu with: -bios path/to/OVMF.fd\r
77 - Option 3: Use QEMU -L parameter\r
78 * Note that UEFI variables will be partially emulated, and non-volatile\r
79 variables may lose their contents after a reboot\r
80 * Either copy, rename or symlink OVMF.fd => bios.bin\r
81 * Use the QEMU -L parameter to specify the directory where the bios.bin\r
82 file is located.\r
83* The EFI shell is built into OVMF builds at this time, so it should\r
84 run automatically if a UEFI boot application is not found on the\r
85 removable media.\r
86* On Linux, newer version of QEMU may enable KVM feature, and this might\r
87 cause OVMF to fail to boot. The QEMU '-no-kvm' may allow OVMF to boot.\r
88* Capturing OVMF debug messages on qemu:\r
89 - The default OVMF build writes debug messages to IO port 0x402. The\r
90 following qemu command line options save them in the file called\r
91 debug.log: '-debugcon file:debug.log -global isa-debugcon.iobase=0x402'.\r
92 - It is possible to revert to the original behavior, when debug messages were\r
93 written to the emulated serial port (potentially intermixing OVMF debug\r
94 output with UEFI serial console output). For this the\r
95 '-D DEBUG_ON_SERIAL_PORT' option has to be passed to the build command (see\r
96 the next section), and in order to capture the serial output qemu needs to\r
97 be started with eg. '-serial file:serial.log'.\r
98 - Debug messages fall into several categories. Logged vs. suppressed\r
99 categories are controlled at OVMF build time by the\r
100 'gEfiMdePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdDebugPrintErrorLevel' bitmask (an UINT32\r
101 value) in the selected .dsc file. Individual bits of this bitmask are\r
102 defined in <MdePkg/Include/Library/DebugLib.h>. One non-default bit (with\r
103 some performance impact) that is frequently set for debugging is 0x00400000\r
104 (DEBUG_VERBOSE).\r
105 - The RELEASE build target ('-b RELEASE' build option, see below) disables\r
106 all debug messages. The default build target is DEBUG.\r
107\r
108=== Build Scripts ===\r
109\r
110On systems with the bash shell you can use OvmfPkg/build.sh to simplify\r
111building and running OVMF.\r
112\r
113So, for example, to build + run OVMF X64:\r
114$ OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64\r
115$ OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 qemu\r
116\r
117And to run a 64-bit UEFI bootable ISO image:\r
118$ OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 qemu -cdrom /path/to/disk-image.iso\r
119\r
120To build a 32-bit OVMF without debug messages using GCC 4.8:\r
121$ OvmfPkg/build.sh -a IA32 -b RELEASE -t GCC48\r
122\r
123=== SMM support ===\r
124\r
125Requirements:\r
126* SMM support requires QEMU 2.5.\r
127* The minimum required QEMU machine type is "pc-q35-2.5".\r
128* SMM with KVM requires Linux 4.4 (host).\r
129\r
130OVMF is capable of utilizing SMM if the underlying QEMU or KVM hypervisor\r
131emulates SMM. SMM is put to use in the S3 suspend and resume infrastructure,\r
132and in the UEFI variable driver stack. The purpose is (virtual) hardware\r
133separation between the runtime guest OS and the firmware (OVMF), with the\r
134intent to make Secure Boot actually secure, by preventing the runtime guest OS\r
135from tampering with the variable store and S3 areas.\r
136\r
137For SMM support, OVMF must be built with the "-D SMM_REQUIRE" option. The\r
138resultant firmware binary will check if QEMU actually provides SMM emulation;\r
139if it doesn't, then OVMF will log an error and trigger an assertion failure\r
140during boot (even in RELEASE builds). Both the naming of the flag (SMM_REQUIRE,\r
141instead of SMM_ENABLE), and this behavior are consistent with the goal\r
142described above: this is supposed to be a security feature, and fallbacks are\r
143not allowed. Similarly, a pflash-backed variable store is a requirement.\r
144\r
145QEMU should be started with the options listed below (in addition to any other\r
146guest-specific flags). The command line should be gradually composed from the\r
147hints below. '\' is used to extend the command line to multiple lines, and '^'\r
148can be used on Windows.\r
149\r
150* QEMU binary and options specific to 32-bit guests:\r
151\r
152 $ qemu-system-i386 -cpu coreduo,-nx \\r
153\r
154 or\r
155\r
156 $ qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu <MODEL>,-lm,-nx \\r
157\r
158* QEMU binary for running 64-bit guests (no particular options):\r
159\r
160 $ qemu-system-x86_64 \\r
161\r
162* Flags common to all SMM scenarios (only the Q35 machine type is supported):\r
163\r
164 -machine q35,smm=on,accel=(tcg|kvm) \\r
165 -m ... \\r
166 -smp ... \\r
167 -global driver=cfi.pflash01,property=secure,value=on \\r
168 -drive if=pflash,format=raw,unit=0,file=OVMF_CODE.fd,readonly=on \\r
169 -drive if=pflash,format=raw,unit=1,file=copy_of_OVMF_VARS.fd \\r
170\r
171* In order to disable S3, add:\r
172\r
173 -global ICH9-LPC.disable_s3=1 \\r
174\r
175=== Network Support ===\r
176\r
177OVMF provides a UEFI network stack by default. Its lowest level driver is the\r
178NIC driver, higher levels are generic. In order to make DHCP, PXE Boot, and eg.\r
179socket test utilities from the StdLib edk2 package work, (1) qemu has to be\r
180configured to emulate a NIC, (2) a matching UEFI NIC driver must be available\r
181when OVMF boots.\r
182\r
183(If a NIC is configured for the virtual machine, and -- dependent on boot order\r
184-- PXE booting is attempted, but no DHCP server responds to OVMF's DHCP\r
185DISCOVER message at startup, the boot process may take approx. 3 seconds\r
186longer.)\r
187\r
188* For each NIC emulated by qemu, a GPLv2 licensed UEFI driver is available from\r
189 the iPXE project. The qemu source distribution contains prebuilt binaries of\r
190 these drivers (and of course allows one to rebuild them from source as well).\r
191 This is the recommended set of drivers.\r
192\r
193* Use the qemu -netdev and -device options, or the legacy -net option, to\r
194 enable NIC support: <http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking>.\r
195\r
196* The iPXE drivers are automatically available to and configured for OVMF in\r
197 the default qemu installation.\r
198\r
199* Independently of the iPXE NIC drivers, the default OVMF build provides a\r
200 basic virtio-net driver, located in OvmfPkg/VirtioNetDxe.\r
201\r
202* Also independently of the iPXE NIC drivers, Intel's proprietary E1000 NIC\r
203 driver (from the BootUtil distribution) can be embedded in the OVMF image at\r
204 build time:\r
205\r
206 - Download BootUtil:\r
207 - Navigate to\r
208 https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/19186/Ethernet-Intel-Ethernet-Connections-Boot-Utility-Preboot-Images-and-EFI-Drivers\r
209 - Click the download link for "PREBOOT.EXE".\r
210 - Accept the Intel Software License Agreement that appears.\r
211 - Unzip "PREBOOT.EXE" into a separate directory (this works with the\r
212 "unzip" utility on platforms different from Windows as well).\r
213 - Copy the "APPS/EFI/EFIx64/E3522X2.EFI" driver binary to\r
214 "Intel3.5/EFIX64/E3522X2.EFI" in your WORKSPACE.\r
215 - Intel have stopped distributing an IA32 driver binary (which used to\r
216 match the filename pattern "E35??E2.EFI"), thus this method will only\r
217 work for the IA32X64 and X64 builds of OVMF.\r
218\r
219 - Include the driver in OVMF during the build:\r
220 - Add "-D E1000_ENABLE" to your build command (only when building\r
221 "OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc" or "OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc").\r
222 - For example: "build -D E1000_ENABLE".\r
223\r
224* When a matching iPXE driver is configured for a NIC as described above, it\r
225 takes priority over other drivers that could possibly drive the card too:\r
226\r
227 | e1000 ne2k_pci pcnet rtl8139 virtio-net-pci\r
228 ---------------------+------------------------------------------------\r
229 iPXE | x x x x x\r
230 VirtioNetDxe | x\r
231 Intel BootUtil (X64) | x\r
232\r
233=== HTTPS Boot ===\r
234\r
235HTTPS Boot is an alternative solution to PXE. It replaces the tftp server\r
236with a HTTPS server so the firmware can download the images through a trusted\r
237and encrypted connection.\r
238\r
239* To enable HTTPS Boot, you have to build OVMF with -D NETWORK_HTTP_BOOT_ENABLE\r
240 and -D NETWORK_TLS_ENABLE. The former brings in the HTTP stack from\r
241 NetworkPkg while the latter enables TLS support in both NetworkPkg and\r
242 CryptoPkg.\r
243\r
244 If you want to exclude the unsecured HTTP connection completely, OVMF has to\r
245 be built with -D NETWORK_ALLOW_HTTP_CONNECTIONS=FALSE so that only the HTTPS\r
246 connections will be accepted.\r
247\r
248* By default, there is no trusted certificate. The user has to import the\r
249 certificates either manually with "Tls Auth Configuration" utility in the\r
250 firmware UI or through the fw_cfg entry, etc/edk2/https/cacerts.\r
251\r
252 -fw_cfg name=etc/edk2/https/cacerts,file=<certdb>\r
253\r
254 The blob for etc/edk2/https/cacerts has to be in the format of Signature\r
255 Database(*1). You can use p11-kit(*2) or efisiglit(*3) to create the\r
256 certificate list.\r
257\r
258 If you want to create the certificate list based on the CA certificates\r
259 in your local host, p11-kit will be a good choice. Here is the command to\r
260 create the list:\r
261\r
262 p11-kit extract --format=edk2-cacerts --filter=ca-anchors \\r
263 --overwrite --purpose=server-auth <certdb>\r
264\r
265 If you only want to import one certificate, efisiglist is the tool for you:\r
266\r
267 efisiglist -a <cert file> -o <certdb>\r
268\r
269 Please note that the certificate has to be in the DER format.\r
270\r
271 You can also append a certificate to the existing list with the following\r
272 command:\r
273\r
274 efisiglist -i <old certdb> -a <cert file> -o <new certdb>\r
275\r
276 NOTE: You may need the patch to make efisiglist generate the correct header.\r
277 (https://github.com/rhboot/pesign/pull/40)\r
278\r
279* Besides the trusted certificates, it's also possible to configure the trusted\r
280 cipher suites for HTTPS through another fw_cfg entry: etc/edk2/https/ciphers.\r
281\r
282 OVMF expects a binary UINT16 array which comprises the cipher suites HEX\r
283 IDs(*4). If the cipher suite list is given, OVMF will choose the cipher\r
284 suite from the intersection of the given list and the built-in cipher\r
285 suites. Otherwise, OVMF just chooses whatever proper cipher suites from the\r
286 built-in ones.\r
287\r
288 - Using QEMU 5.2 or later, QEMU can expose the ordered list of permitted TLS\r
289 cipher suites from the host side to OVMF:\r
290\r
291 -object tls-cipher-suites,id=mysuite0,priority=@SYSTEM \\r
292 -fw_cfg name=etc/edk2/https/ciphers,gen_id=mysuite0\r
293\r
294 (Refer to the QEMU manual and to\r
295 <https://gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html> for more\r
296 information on the "priority" property.)\r
297\r
298 - Using QEMU 5.1 or earlier, the array has to be passed from a file:\r
299\r
300 -fw_cfg name=etc/edk2/https/ciphers,file=<cipher suites>\r
301\r
302 whose contents can be generated with the following script, for example:\r
303\r
304 export LC_ALL=C\r
305 openssl ciphers -V \\r
306 | sed -r -n \\r
307 -e 's/^ *0x([0-9A-F]{2}),0x([0-9A-F]{2}) - .*$/\\\\x\1 \\\\x\2/p' \\r
308 | xargs -r -- printf -- '%b' > ciphers.bin\r
309\r
310 This script creates ciphers.bin that contains all the cipher suite IDs\r
311 supported by openssl according to the local host configuration.\r
312\r
313 You may want to enable only a limited set of cipher suites. Then, you\r
314 should check the validity of your list first:\r
315\r
316 openssl ciphers -V <cipher list>\r
317\r
318 If all the cipher suites in your list map to the proper HEX IDs, go ahead\r
319 to modify the script and execute it:\r
320\r
321 export LC_ALL=C\r
322 openssl ciphers -V <cipher list> \\r
323 | sed -r -n \\r
324 -e 's/^ *0x([0-9A-F]{2}),0x([0-9A-F]{2}) - .*$/\\\\x\1 \\\\x\2/p' \\r
325 | xargs -r -- printf -- '%b' > ciphers.bin\r
326\r
327(*1) See "31.4.1 Signature Database" in UEFI specification 2.7 errata A.\r
328(*2) p11-kit: https://github.com/p11-glue/p11-kit/\r
329(*3) efisiglist: https://github.com/rhboot/pesign/blob/master/src/efisiglist.c\r
330(*4) https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS#Cipher_names_correspondence_table\r
331\r
332=== OVMF Flash Layout ===\r
333\r
334Like all current IA32/X64 system designs, OVMF's firmware device (rom/flash)\r
335appears in QEMU's physical address space just below 4GB (0x100000000).\r
336\r
337OVMF supports building a 1MB, 2MB or 4MB flash image (see the DSC files for the\r
338FD_SIZE_1MB, FD_SIZE_2MB, FD_SIZE_4MB build defines). The base address for the\r
3391MB image in QEMU physical memory is 0xfff00000. The base address for the 2MB\r
340image is 0xffe00000. The base address for the 4MB image is 0xffc00000.\r
341\r
342Using the 1MB or 2MB image, the layout of the firmware device in memory looks\r
343like:\r
344\r
345+--------------------------------------- 4GB (0x100000000)\r
346| VTF0 (16-bit reset code) and OVMF SEC\r
347| (SECFV, 208KB/0x34000)\r
348+--------------------------------------- varies based on flash size\r
349|\r
350| Compressed main firmware image\r
351| (FVMAIN_COMPACT)\r
352|\r
353+--------------------------------------- base + 0x20000\r
354| Fault-tolerant write (FTW)\r
355| Spare blocks (64KB/0x10000)\r
356+--------------------------------------- base + 0x10000\r
357| FTW Work block (4KB/0x1000)\r
358+--------------------------------------- base + 0x0f000\r
359| Event log area (4KB/0x1000)\r
360+--------------------------------------- base + 0x0e000\r
361| Non-volatile variable storage\r
362| area (56KB/0xe000)\r
363+--------------------------------------- base address\r
364\r
365Using the 4MB image, the layout of the firmware device in memory looks like:\r
366\r
367+--------------------------------------- base + 0x400000 (4GB/0x100000000)\r
368| VTF0 (16-bit reset code) and OVMF SEC\r
369| (SECFV, 208KB/0x34000)\r
370+--------------------------------------- base + 0x3cc000\r
371|\r
372| Compressed main firmware image\r
373| (FVMAIN_COMPACT, 3360KB/0x348000)\r
374|\r
375+--------------------------------------- base + 0x84000\r
376| Fault-tolerant write (FTW)\r
377| Spare blocks (264KB/0x42000)\r
378+--------------------------------------- base + 0x42000\r
379| FTW Work block (4KB/0x1000)\r
380+--------------------------------------- base + 0x41000\r
381| Event log area (4KB/0x1000)\r
382+--------------------------------------- base + 0x40000\r
383| Non-volatile variable storage\r
384| area (256KB/0x40000)\r
385+--------------------------------------- base address (0xffc00000)\r
386\r
387The code in SECFV locates FVMAIN_COMPACT, and decompresses the\r
388main firmware (MAINFV) into RAM memory at address 0x800000. The\r
389remaining OVMF firmware then uses this decompressed firmware\r
390volume image.\r
391\r
392=== UEFI Windows 7 & Windows 2008 Server ===\r
393\r
394* One of the '-vga std' and '-vga qxl' QEMU options should be used.\r
395* Only one video mode, 1024x768x32, is supported at OS runtime.\r
396* The '-vga qxl' QEMU option is recommended. After booting the installed\r
397 guest OS, select the video card in Device Manager, and upgrade its driver\r
398 to the QXL XDDM one. Download location:\r
399 <http://www.spice-space.org/download.html>, Guest | Windows binaries.\r
400 This enables further resolutions at OS runtime, and provides S3\r
401 (suspend/resume) capability.\r