[libvirt] [PATCH 2/3] conf: add support for choosing firmware type

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 04:49:48PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Currently if you want to enable UEFI firmware for a guest
> you need to know about the hypervisor platform specific
> firmware path. This does not even work for all platforms,
> as hypervisors like VMWare don't expose UEFI as a path,
> they just have a direct config option for turning it on
> or off.
> 
> This adds ability to use the much simpler:
> 
>   <loader firmware="uefi|bios"/>
> 
> to choose the different firmware types.

Although not in the scope of this patch, virt-v2v would really like
the ESX driver in libvirt to return this data for existing guests.  I
believe there is an open RFE about that somewhere.

Patches 2 & 3 look fine to me, ACK.

Rich.

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