Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] bhyve: add bootrom support
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 04:24:09PM +0300, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:
Recently, bhyve got UEFI support that eliminates necessity of
having two-step process of starting a VM, i.e. loading OS
using loader like bhyveloader or grub and then calling bhyve itself.
From user perspective usage looks the following: if a domain XML
contains the '<bootloader>' element and it's value is a path
to non-executable file, then it's treated as a path to bootrom
file and external loader is not execute.
Actually, <bootloader> is used to signify a helper program that
runs in host context to acquire a kernel + initrd image to boot
a guest from. So that's not the right element to be using here
If you want to provide a guest BIOS image, then you want to use
the <loader> element instead. IIUC, for UEFI, we use this with
QEMU/KVM:
<loader readonly='yes'
type='pflash'>/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd</loader>
Regards,
Daniel
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