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OVMF

OVMF is an EDK II based project to enable UEFI support for Virtual Machines. OVMF contains sample UEFI firmware for QEMU and KVM.

License: BSD

More information: OVMF FAQ, How to build OVMF, Boot Overview, edk2-devel

Source repository: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/tree/master/OvmfPkg

Additional Information

  • http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/OVMF
  • http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/OVMF
  • Gerd Hoffmann’s OVMF builds: https://www.kraxel.org/repos/
    • These images are automatically built and track the latest OVMF code in the EDK II tree.
  • Some of these builds include a seabios CSM and can boot non-UEFI “legacy” operating systems. (Note: seabios is GPLv3 licensed.)
  • If your OS doesn’t work with RPM repositories, then you can manually download and decompress the RPM files under jenkins/edk2