Run 5 on the real host bisected the guest hang: the Debian 13 image
hangs after GRUB under SeaBIOS with or without our seed and with either
CPU model, and boots under OVMF. The image's legacy boot chain is the
problem, not the provider.
images.<key>.firmware is "uefi" (default) or "bios". The domain XML
emits <os firmware="efi"> with secure boot off, so libvirt selects the
OVMF binary and manages the NVRAM file, which the existing nvram undefine
flag removes. Direct-URL images default to UEFI too. OVMF joins the
hypervisor prerequisites; sample, config table, known gaps, decision log
and the execution log record the finding.
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resolveImage maps placement.image to a configured key or URL; imageCache
streams the download through StorageVolUpload with a sha256 tee, writes
a marker volume when the upload is verified, and re-fetches when the
marker is missing or the configured checksum changed. Errors carry
taxonomy sentinels that classify now honours. Adds the in-memory fake
libvirt API used from here on.
Step 3b of docs/plans/2026-09-04-1404-kvm-provider.md.
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