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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] kvm tools, seabios: Add "--bios" option to "vm
 run"
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:58:54 +0200
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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".