Hi Laszlo, thanks for investigating the problem so rapidly. So, I downgraded the ipxe-qemu package from 1.0.0+git-20190109.133f4c4-0ubuntu3 (focal) to 1.0.0+git-20180124 .fbe8c52d-0ubuntu2 (bionic) and the problem completely disappeared. Your theory looks absolutely correct to me.
For what it's worth, I just discovered that, even with the buggy ipxe- qemu in Focal, the OVMF distributed with QEMU itself (/usr/share/qemu/OVMF.fd) worked, but ONLY with it. I tried with multiple other versions of OVMF and all of them caused QEMU to stuck at boot, probably because of that ASSERT in the 82540em.efi driver. Vlad -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1882671 Title: qemu-system-x86_64 (ver 4.2) stuck at boot with OVMF bios To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1882671/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
