[libvirt] [PATCH] bhyve: add bootrom support

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 04:24:09PM +0300, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:
> Recently, bhyve got UEFI support that eliminates necessity of
> having two-step process of starting a VM, i.e. loading OS
> using loader like bhyveloader or grub and then calling bhyve itself.
> 
> From user perspective usage looks the following: if a domain XML
> contains the '<bootloader>' element and it's value is a path
> to non-executable file, then it's treated as a path to bootrom
> file and external loader is not execute.

Actually, <bootloader> is used to signify a helper program that
runs in host context to acquire a kernel + initrd image to boot
a guest from. So that's not the right element to be using here

If you want to provide a guest BIOS image, then you want to use
the <loader> element instead. IIUC, for UEFI, we use this with
QEMU/KVM:

  <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd</loader>

Regards,
Daniel
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