Re: [edk2] OVMF + Windows 2008 r2 sp1

2012-10-17 Thread Jeff VanDellen
t; On 10/16/12 16:58, Jeff VanDellen wrote: > >> I've attached the the output of the serial console while attempting to >> boot off the iso. Hopefully this information would be helpful. > > From the end of the attachment: > > Loading driver at 0x00010

Re: [edk2] OVMF + Windows 2008 r2 sp1

2012-10-18 Thread Jeff VanDellen
I've tried following the steps in that link several times over the past month or two. I've had no luck getting windows to boot under DUET on kvm. I was able to get the usb install stick to boot but the install would fail very early in the process. On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Paolo Bonzini

Re: [edk2] OVMF + Windows 2008 r2 sp1

2012-10-22 Thread Jeff VanDellen
Greetings, On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 10/16/12 16:58, Jeff VanDellen wrote: > >> -Additionally, I have installed windows 2008 via vmware workstation 9 >> to an LVM slice. > > Was that with OVMF? No, this was using vmware's implement

Re: [edk2] OVMF + Windows 2008 r2 sp1

2012-10-22 Thread Jeff VanDellen
can safely boot with graphics mode enabled and eliminate transitions to text mode. Whenever the firmware boot manager hands off execution to a Windows EFI application, platform firmware and the firmware boot manager must not use the frame buffer for any purpose." On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:1

Re: [edk2] OVMF + Windows 2008 r2 sp1

2012-10-30 Thread Jeff VanDellen
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > (The following passages are from [1], which I've referenced in section > III of [2].) > >> >> "Display at Boot Time >> For a platform that has a console device, the UEFI 2.0 specification >> requires the firmware to implement the Simple Text

[edk2] Hotplug broken Windows Server 2012?

2013-08-29 Thread Jeff VanDellen
Greetings ovmf devs, Recently I've noticed that hotplug does not appear to work in Windows Server 2012 using virtio drivers with edk2.git-ovmf-x64 release: 20130829.b267.g6ce5535 from the following repo http://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/edk2/ Usually there is a safely remove hardware icon i

[edk2] Hotplug broken Windows Server 2012

2013-08-29 Thread Jeff VanDellen
Greetings ovmf devs, Recently I've noticed that hotplug does not appear to work in Windows Server 2012 using virtio drivers with edk2.git-ovmf-x64 release: 20130829.b267.g6ce5535 from the following repo http://www.kraxel.org/repos/jenkins/edk2/ Usually there is a safely remove hardware icon i