Comment # 4 on bug 989462 from James Fehlig

(In reply to Alan Ott from comment #3)
> My bug is that it _can_ find the firmware (because it shows in the
> virt-manager GUI) but it uses the wrong <loader ... type=""> in the
> generated XML file. It's trying to use "<loader ... type='pflash'>", but the
> only thing that seems to work is "<loader ... type='rom'>".

But as you already noted, the type _should_ be pflash. Perhaps there is a
problem with qemu, or the firmware blob.

FYI, you can get debug info from ovmf by adding the following to your guest XML

<domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>
  ...
  <qemu:commandline>
    <qemu:arg value='-debugcon'/>
    <qemu:arg value='file:/tmp/ovmf-debug.log'/>
    <qemu:arg value='-global'/>
    <qemu:arg value='isa-debugcon.iobase=0x402'/>
  </qemu:commandline>
  ...
</domain>

Also, is there anything interesting in the VM's log file
(/var/log/libvirt/qemu/<vm-name>.log? It would be good to verify libvirt
created a correct qemu command line, although I think it did given the info you
provided in #0.

BTW, bug#983747 is essentially a SLE clone of bug#981836.