[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] Configuring pflash devices for OVMF firmware

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 31/01/19 09:40, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Maybe we should just add pflash block properties to the machine?  And
>> then it can create the devices if the properties are set to a non-empty
>> value.
> What exactly do you have in mind?  Something like
> 
>     -machine q35,ovmf-code=OVMF-CODE-NODE,ovmf-data=OVMF-DATA-NODE
> 
> where OVMF-CODE-NODE and OVMF-DATA-NODE are block backend node names,
> i.e.
> 
>     -blockdev file,node-name=OVMF-CODE-NODE,read-only=on,filename=/usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_CODE.fd
>     -blockdev file,node-name=OVMF-DATA-NODE,read-only=on,filename=...

Yes, though I would call it pflash0 and pflash1.

Paolo