how to handle EFI/UEFI boot process in openqa

[schaefi]

For testing we require that the qemu VM is called in EFI/UEFI mode. From a qemu perspective this means:

qemu-kvm -bios /usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x86_64-ms.bin ...

How can we setup the use of a custom firmware when running in openqa ?

[dcermak]

Judging from https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst/blob/master/doc/backend_vars.asciidoc it should boil down to setting the following variables:

• UEFI: 1
• UEFI_PFLASH_CODE: probably distribution specific, but on opensuse /usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x86_64-ms-code.bin is used
• UEFI_PFLASH_VARS: same as _CODE, only /usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x86_64-ms-vars.bin is used on opensuse instead

[dcermak]

The variables from https://github.com/OSInside/kiwi-functional-tests/issues/5#issuecomment-724780913 are sufficient to make openqa boot in UEFI mode. The monstrosity, ehm, I mean "test suite" that I'm developing in #3 is utilizing these.

[dcermak]

Fixed via #10.