[pve-devel] [PATCH v3 qemu-server] Prevent starting a 32-bit VM using a 64-bit OVMF BIOS

[Filip Schauer]

Instead of starting a VM with a 32-bit CPU type and a 64-bit OVMF image,
throw an error before starting the VM telling the user that OVMF is not
supported on 32-bit CPU types.

Signed-off-by: Filip Schauer <f.schauer at proxmox.com>
---
Changes since v2:
* Simplify the check whether a 32-bit CPU type is used in combination
  with OVMF

 PVE/QemuServer.pm | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/PVE/QemuServer.pm b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
index 2063e66..b25a3cd 100644
--- a/PVE/QemuServer.pm
+++ b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
@@ -3570,6 +3570,16 @@ my sub print_ovmf_drive_commandlines {
     return ("if=pflash,unit=0,format=raw,readonly=on,file=$ovmf_code", $var_drive_str);
 }
 
+my @cputypes_32bit = (
+    '486',
+    'pentium',
+    'pentium2',
+    'pentium3',
+    'coreduo',
+    'athlon',
+    'kvm32',
+    'qemu32',
+);
 sub config_to_command {
     my ($storecfg, $vmid, $conf, $defaults, $forcemachine, $forcecpu,
         $pbs_backing) = @_;
@@ -3689,6 +3699,9 @@ sub config_to_command {
     }
 
     if ($conf->{bios} && $conf->{bios} eq 'ovmf') {
+	die "OVMF (UEFI) BIOS is not supported on 32-bit CPU types\n"
+	    if ($conf->{cpu} && first {$_ eq $conf->{cpu}} @cputypes_32bit);
+
 	my ($code_drive_str, $var_drive_str) =
 	    print_ovmf_drive_commandlines($conf, $storecfg, $vmid, $arch, $q35, $version_guard);
 	push $cmd->@*, '-drive', $code_drive_str;
-- 
2.39.2