I am starting a VM with QEMU this way:
qemu-system-x86_64 \
-m 512M \
-drive file=ovmf.qcow2,if=pflash,format=qcow2,unit=0,readonly=on \
-drive file=ovmf.vars.qcow2,if=pflash,format=qcow2,unit=1 \
-nographic \
-drive file=file.uefiimg,if=ide,format=raw
fdisk -l file.uefiimg
output:
Disk file.uefiimg: 2 GiB, 2147483648 bytes, 4194304 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: DC9B048E-91D0-4DD0-BD7A-4D6130AA726F
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
file.uefiimg1 16384 49151 32768 16M EFI System
file.uefiimg2 49152 1589247 1540096 752M Linux filesystem
file.uefiimg3 1589248 3129343 1540096 752M Linux filesystem
file.uefiimg4 3129344 4177919 1048576 512M Linux filesystem
Now the tricky part is that I would like to start this on Virtualbox. If not possible vmware is also an option. I tried converting the uefiimg to a raw image with VBoxManage then to vdi, without success. I think the main problem was that I need to include the qcow2 files. I read about those 2 files, inserted as pflash but I don't understand how to load them in VirtualBox (or if it's possible)
I converted the image to vdi with
VBoxManage convertfromraw file.uefiimg --format vdi file.vdi
Then, loaded this vdi and it works perfectly.