-----Original Message----- From: Nehal J Wani [mailto:nehaljw.kkd1@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 1:07 PM To: Chen, Hanxiao/陈 晗霄 Cc: libvir-list Subject: Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] docs: update docs for setting the QEMU BIOS file path > <dd>The optional <code>loader</code> tag refers to a firmware blob > used to assist the domain creation process. At this time, it is > only needed by Xen fully virtualized Is the sentence "only needed by Xen fully virtualized" valid even now?

For example, the support for UEFI firmware has also been introduced, which can be easily used by extracting bios.bin from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jejb1:/UEFI/openSUSE_12.2 /x86_64/OVMF-0.1+r14742-1.1.x86_64.rpm and passing its path under the <loader> option. -- Nehal J Wani

-----Original Message----- From: Jim Fehlig [mailto:jfehlig@suse.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:25 PM To: Chen, Hanxiao/陈 晗霄 Cc: Nehal J Wani; libvir-list Subject: Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] docs: update docs for setting the QEMU BIOS file path chenhanxiao(a)cn.fujitsu.com wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Nehal J Wani [mailto:nehaljw.kkd1@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 1:07 PM >> To: Chen, Hanxiao/陈 晗霄 >> Cc: libvir-list >> Subject: Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] docs: update docs for setting the QEMU BIOS file >> path >> >> >>> <dd>The optional <code>loader</code> tag refers to a firmware blob >>> used to assist the domain creation process. At this time, it is >>> only needed by Xen fully virtualized >>> >> Is the sentence "only needed by Xen fully virtualized" valid even now? >> > > I'm not familiar with XEN... > > Anyone can help? > There is certainly a lot of Xen fully virtualized config with <loader>/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader</loader>. But it sounds like your change makes the "only needed by" part invalid. I.e. <loader> is used by Xen fully virtualized domains as well as setting the QEMU BIOS file path for QEMU/KVM domains.

Regards, Jim