[libvirt-users] how to load different bios into qemu

[Martin Kraus]

> You can fudge this by using a shell script as the "emulator", e.g.
>  <emulator>/path/to/start.sh</emulator>
>
> For my use case I had the following requirements, which are working
> successfully in the attached start.sh scirpt:
>
> - supply smbios type 0 and 1 files
> - supply an additional ACPI table
> - use a customized rebuilt seabios bin file
>
> For the first req. you must not allow the -uuid arg to be passed or it
> won't allow the smbios to be applied
>
> For the second, you must trim the apci header data from a binary acpi,
> because that data is given in the command line option.
>
> For the third, the path cannot be specified, so the file must be
> in /usr/share/kvm directory and path must not be given.

That's actually a great idea. I haven't thought about overloading the emulator directive.
thanks
mk