Hi again,
now all puzzle pieces fit together - thank you, no further questions needed.

This is not a bug as in "this has broken" it is a "feature request" in
regard to qemu and edk2 at the versions they've been available at the
time of Ubuntu Noble.

Yet, despite being a feature request it is still something that is
generally useful/demanded. I've done other small fixes where possible
towards that and I know some Ubuntu folks work on SNP support in
general.

Clearly on new the releases all has come together
- EDK2 is good since Oracular (as you confirmed)
- QEMU has it since 9.1 (see https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/9.1) and Plucky 
comes very soon with QEMU 9.2

We can't just upgrade EDK2 for the associated regression risk, but I'd
right now not spend the effort to isolate the fix either as with the
qemu in Noble it won't work. But that does not mean no, it means this
has different timelines:

Time: Immediately
For cases like yours where you already build qemu yourself I'd suggest using 
the unofficial, but often very helpful gap closer PPA with server backports 
[1]. That currently has what is in 25.04 (and therefore the OVMF you want) and 
will soon get what is then released in 25.10 (including qemu and an even newer 
edk2). This is not a one-shot, but rebuilt automatically when the source 
release gets an update.

Timeline: short term
If someone can isolate the change to EDK2 that makes this work, that change is 
rather uncontroversial and one can make a case why this helps at all if people 
using it need to build their own qemu already - then this might be an SRU. But 
right now I do not see that fit nicely given the alternatives.

Time: mid-term
25.04 Plucky is soon released and has all you need.

Time: mid-term but on LTS
I know people are working on what can be done for SNP in Noble, including all 
components (more invasive on qemu than on edk2 I assume) needed.
If that ends up as something that can pass the "do not regress existing users" 
SRU rules has to be seen.
But they will find a way eventually.

Time: long-term LTS
Well, the next 26.04 is not too far away, if the backporting is not working out 
or ends up with a solution you do not want to use (e.g. because it might need 
opt-in to not regress other users) then that isn't too far off either.

[1]: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-server/+archive/ubuntu/server-
backports?field.series_filter=noble

** Changed in: edk2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

** Also affects: edk2 (Ubuntu Noble)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: edk2 (Ubuntu Oracular)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: edk2 (Ubuntu Plucky)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: Fix Released

** Changed in: edk2 (Ubuntu Oracular)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Changed in: edk2 (Ubuntu Oracular)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

** Changed in: edk2 (Ubuntu Noble)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: edk2 (Ubuntu Noble)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Tags removed: server-todo

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  OVMF.fd file doesn't support SNP QEMU Guest Launch

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