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>