Virt-Manager updated with UEFI (OVMF/AVMF) support

Virt-Manager, as of 1.2, has support for UEFI’s OVMF/AVMF format!

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=UEFI-OVMF-Virt-Manager-1.2
http://blog.wikichoon.com/2016/01/uefi-support-in-virt-install-and-virt.html
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Virt-Manager-1.2-Released
https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2015-May/msg00010.html
https://virt-manager.org/

I missed this news, but luckily Phoronix did not…

BTW, Virt-Manager is a SPICE client, and UEFI has some SPICE support. I don’t know what that means, I’ve been meaning to learn… 🙂 There is information on this in the below OVMF whitepaper:

http://www.spice-space.org/
http://www.linux-kvm.org/downloads/lersek/ovmf-whitepaper-c770f8c.txt

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