Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] bhyve: add bootrom support

Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > 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> Ah, I should read formatdomain.html more carefully! I'll work on v2, thanks for the feedback.