From: Deema B <stou4r@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Command line option "-option-rom" doesn't take the ROM file
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 12:22:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACw_XP-pUdB-JCThpoibqAF0D4Fi+AS-j3tthtLdWMmLm2X9Wg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171024115032.GA18756@stefanha-x1.localdomain>
Thank you, Stefan! That worked.
Sorry for the double email, I'm learning quickly :)
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 4:50 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 02:22:05PM -0700, Deema B wrote:
> > I'm trying to use the -option-rom option to supply my own virtio OpROM.
> >
> > I am not able to see the ROM being launch (the built-in version comes up
> > instead).
> > The only way I am able to make it work is to rebuild the Qemu and iPXE
> > together.
> >
> > I'm assuming this is working feature, and I'm simply doing something
> wrong.
> > Appreciate any suggestions, pointers, and to hear your experience with
> this
> > particular option.
>
> Hi Deema,
> You can specify the option ROM on a per-device basis:
>
> -device virtio-net-pci,romfile=my-ipxe.rom,...
>
> The advantage of this approach is that there is no conflict between the
> global -option-rom file and the default file loaded by the NIC device.
>
> Stefan
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-24 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-23 21:22 [Qemu-devel] Command line option "-option-rom" doesn't take the ROM file Deema B
2017-10-24 11:50 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-10-24 19:22 ` Deema B [this message]
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2017-10-23 17:54 Deema B
2017-10-24 11:53 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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