Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] Configuring pflash devices for OVMF firmware

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini(a)redhat.com&gt; writes: > On 31/01/19 09:40, Markus Armbruster wrote: >>> Maybe we should just add pflash block properties to the machine? And >>> then it can create the devices if the properties are set to a non-empty >>> value. >> What exactly do you have in mind? Something like >> >> -machine q35,ovmf-code=OVMF-CODE-NODE,ovmf-data=OVMF-DATA-NODE >> >> where OVMF-CODE-NODE and OVMF-DATA-NODE are block backend node names, >> i.e. >> >> -blockdev file,node-name=OVMF-CODE-NODE,read-only=on,filename=/usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_CODE.fd >> -blockdev file,node-name=OVMF-DATA-NODE,read-only=on,filename=... > > Yes, though I would call it pflash0 and pflash1. Digression... should we put traditional BIOS in flash as well? Only for new machine types, obviously.