"ACPI requires UEFI on this architecture" Displayed During VM Creation

Symptom

The message "ACPI requires UEFI on this architecture" is displayed during the VM creation.

Key Process and Cause Analysis

EDK2 required by the VM is missing.

Conclusion and Solution

1. Install EDK2.
   • CentOS 7.6

     yum -y install AAVMF

   • CentOS 8.1 or openEuler

     yum -y install edk2-aarch64

2. Restart the libvirtd service.

   systemctl restart libvirtd