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From: Deema B <stou4r@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 12:22:45 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Command line option "-option-rom" doesn't take the
 ROM file
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
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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
>