Commit 6e8248c8 authored by Raito Bezarius's avatar Raito Bezarius
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nixos/qemu-vm: make it possible to use UEFI without bootloaders 

`useEFIBoot` is somewhat misleading, but we should make it possible to
enable UEFI environment / firmware without buying into a bootloader.

This makes it possible.
parent 1d5ff216

nixos/modules/virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix

+18 −10
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@@ -169,19 +169,27 @@ let 
      # Create a directory for exchanging data with the VM.

      mkdir -p "$TMPDIR/xchg"



      ${lib.optionalString cfg.useBootLoader

      ''

        NIX_EFI_VARS=$(readlink -f "''${NIX_EFI_VARS:-${config.system.name}-efi-vars.fd}")



      ${lib.optionalString cfg.useEFIBoot

      ''

        # Expose EFI variables, it's useful even when we are not using a bootloader (!).

        # We might be interested in having EFI variable storage present even if we aren't booting via UEFI, hence

        # no guard against `useBootLoader`.  Examples:

        # - testing PXE boot or other EFI applications

        # - directbooting LinuxBoot, which `kexec()s` into a UEFI environment that can boot e.g. Windows

        NIX_EFI_VARS=$(readlink -f "''${NIX_EFI_VARS:-${config.system.name}-efi-vars.fd}")

        # VM needs writable EFI vars

        if ! test -e "$NIX_EFI_VARS"; then

            cp ${systemImage}/efi-vars.fd "$NIX_EFI_VARS"

        ${if cfg.useBootLoader then

            # We still need the EFI var from the make-disk-image derivation

            # because our "switch-to-configuration" process might

            # write into it and we want to keep this data.

            ''cp ${systemImage}/efi-vars.fd "$NIX_EFI_VARS"''

            else

            ''cp ${cfg.efi.variables} "$NIX_EFI_VARS"''

          }

          chmod 0644 "$NIX_EFI_VARS"

        fi

      ''}

      ''}



      cd "$TMPDIR"