[pve-devel] [PATCH-SERIS qemu-server 0/4] vm start: ovmf: do not auto-enroll Microsoft UEFI CA 2023
Fiona Ebner
f.ebner at proxmox.com
Tue Nov 18 13:34:38 CET 2025
As reported in the community forum [0], enrolling the new certificate
will trigger BitLocker recovery. It doesn't seem to be possible to
detect whether BitLocker is used by looking at the EFI var store (no
telling difference in dumps with 'virt-fw-vars --output-json' before
and after).
Stop auto-enrolling the new Microsoft UEFI 2023 certificate and
produce a warning, telling users about the 'qm enroll-efi-keys'
command and what steps to take when BitLocker is used to avoid
triggering recovery. Thomas found [1], which suggests using
'manage-bde -protectors -disable' which will disable key protectors
for the next boot and this was also successfully tested.
[0]: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/173417/post-817164
[1]: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/warning-recent-kek-firmware-update-locks-out-windows-bitlocker-urgent-issue-for-dual-boot-users/155431/5
qemu-server:
Fiona Ebner (4):
ovmf: enroll ms 2023 cert: change QSD ID to allow calling outside of
VM start
api/cli: add enroll-efi-keys endpoint
ovmf: factor out helper for checking whether MS 2023 certificate
should be enrolled
vm start: ovmf: do not auto-enroll Microsoft UEFI CA 2023
src/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/PVE/CLI/qm.pm | 2 ++
src/PVE/QemuServer.pm | 21 ++++++-------
src/PVE/QemuServer/OVMF.pm | 29 ++++++++++++------
4 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
Summary over all repositories:
4 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
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