Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] kvm tools, seabios: Add "--bios" option to "vm run"

Pekka Enberg
2012-02-24T18:09:55Z

On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 09:23 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 02/24/2012 09:05 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > This patch adds a "--bios" command line option to "vm run". You can use this to
> > try to boot with SeaBIOS, for example:
> >
> > ./vm run --bios=/usr/share/seabios/bios.bin \
> > --disk $HOME/images/debian_lenny_amd64_standard.qcow2
> >
> > This doesn't boot yet for obvious reasons but at least people can now start to
> > play with external BIOS images easily.
>
> You may want to call it firmware as other platforms also have firmware. For
> instance, it may be desirable to use the same interface to load SLOF with spapr.

I renamed the command line option to "--firmware".