Hello, I am having an issue with getting the GUI to display properly in a QEMU VM with UEFI.
If I turn on textonly everything works:
Auto detection functions and picks up my refind_linux.conf
Manual boot stanzas are picked up, with correct submenu options and they all work.
I have tried to turn off textonly and play with every resolution setting I can think of. Nothing seems to work, on top of playing with the resolution in the UEFI System Settings screen (e.g. BIOS screen).
I found this post but it talks about issues with a driver. I don't beleive the driver is the issue since textonly works and in the process of debugging I changed my /boot partition to vfat and it still didn't work.
Is there a compaiblity issue with QEMU/KVM and OVMF UEFI emulation that would case the GUI to not function?
I used the standard refind-install script with very standard settings. refind.conf is default asside from fixing the Arch Linux manual stanza.
/devsda2 is ext2 and mounted to /boot /dev/sda1 is vfat mounted to /boot/efi
refind-install placed a EFI directory in /boot/efi and everything is correct.
I'll reiterate, text-only functions perfectly, so it doesn't seem to be an issue with detection or filesystem access.
Happy to provide any further output or details, but the setup I have feels very standard and I haven't made any custoimations or added any sort of theme.
Any assistance would be welcome, thank you!
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Hello, I am having an issue with getting the GUI to display properly in a QEMU VM with UEFI.
If I turn on
textonlyeverything works:refind_linux.confI have tried to turn off
textonlyand play with everyresolutionsetting I can think of. Nothing seems to work, on top of playing with the resolution in the UEFI System Settings screen (e.g. BIOS screen).I found this post but it talks about issues with a driver. I don't beleive the driver is the issue since
textonlyworks and in the process of debugging I changed my/bootpartition tovfatand it still didn't work.Is there a compaiblity issue with QEMU/KVM and OVMF UEFI emulation that would case the GUI to not function?
I used the standard
refind-installscript with very standard settings.refind.confis default asside from fixing the Arch Linux manual stanza./devsda2is ext2 and mounted to/boot/dev/sda1is vfat mounted to/boot/efirefind-installplaced aEFIdirectory in/boot/efiand everything is correct.I'll reiterate,
text-onlyfunctions perfectly, so it doesn't seem to be an issue with detection or filesystem access.Installed from here https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/refind/
Happy to provide any further output or details, but the setup I have feels very standard and I haven't made any custoimations or added any sort of theme.
Any assistance would be welcome, thank you!
I run into a similar issue myself and managed to fix it, hopefully will work for you too: https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/discussion/general/thread/4dfcdfdd16/