I’ve been trying to boot the PikaOS ISO as a CD in Virtual Machine Manager but get an error on boot. Has anyone else experienced this? Did you figure out how to make it work?

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  • Scoopta@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    I don’t believe pika supports booting from a BIOS as almost no real systems have a BIOS anymore, especially not the target systems pika is designed for. You likely need to switch to UEFI firmware in qemu, possibly installing the ovmf package if you don’t already have it and then switching to that firmware in whatever VM manager you’re running

    • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.caOPEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Aaaah ok. Yeah I had a hunch it might be EFI related.

      Virtual Machine Manager GUI doesn’t have the option for that. I’ll have to create it by hand.

      Thanks for the help! :)

      • Scoopta@programming.dev
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Virt manager does but only during creation. You have to check the option for “customize VM before creation” or whatever that option is on the last screen. Then there’s a firmware drop down where you can select OVMF

        • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.caOPEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Hey you’re right!!! Thank you so much! Hahahaha nice!

          EDIT: After some testing, the screenshot here is wrong. (I couldn’t change it)

          The correct choice is :

          UEFI x86_64 /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE_4M.secboot.fd

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