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Re: [Qemu-devel] Command line option "-option-rom" doesn't take the ROM
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Command line option "-option-rom" doesn't take the ROM file |
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Tue, 24 Oct 2017 13:50:32 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) |
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 02:22:05PM -0700, Deema B wrote:
> I'm trying to use the -option-rom option to supply my own virtio OpROM.
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> I am not able to see the ROM being launch (the built-in version comes up
> instead).
> The only way I am able to make it work is to rebuild the Qemu and iPXE
> together.
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> I'm assuming this is working feature, and I'm simply doing something wrong.
> Appreciate any suggestions, pointers, and to hear your experience with this
> particular option.
Hi Deema,
You can specify the option ROM on a per-device basis:
-device virtio-net-pci,romfile=my-ipxe.rom,...
The advantage of this approach is that there is no conflict between the
global -option-rom file and the default file loaded by the NIC device.
Stefan