I tested on Tumbleweed, and this command works for me: qemu-system-aarch64 -m 1024 \ -cpu cortex-a57 \ -M virt \ -serial stdio \ -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/qemu/aavmf-aarch64-code.bin \ -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=aavmf-aarch64-vars.bin Just submitted the newer OVMF to Leap 42.1.