[Qemu-discuss] Boot Process of AArch64 Virtual Machine

[Taylor Holberton]

Yesterday I wrote a simple boot sector that goes into an infinite loop. I
produced a flat binary, with the text section starting at 0x00.

The binary appeared to work when running this:

qemu-system-aarch64 -machine connex -drive
if=flash,format=raw,file=flash.img

But when switching to -machine virt, qemu starts and enters the menu prompt.

Why is it going straight into the menu prompt? What do I have to do to get
a minimal boot sector running on the virt machine?