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authorKeshav Amburay2013-11-14 00:36:21 +0530
committerKeshav Amburay2013-11-14 00:39:51 +0530
commit9011156539aaefa71988c71814825eb4d3bbd035 (patch)
tree40505dbdc191065e0144e67561c1af2a0b3a5363 /ovmf.install
parentabec53cdb4743f1419323b44e60ad2a4e5364454 (diff)
downloadaur-9011156539aaefa71988c71814825eb4d3bbd035.tar.gz
Enable QEMU Flash support
Diffstat (limited to 'ovmf.install')
-rw-r--r--ovmf.install13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ovmf.install b/ovmf.install
index 8c6ad9e88370..3d98e218eb34 100644
--- a/ovmf.install
+++ b/ovmf.install
@@ -2,9 +2,18 @@ post_install() {
cat << EOF
- To test OVMF X64 in QEMU 1.5 , run :
+ NOTE: The OVMF X64 image has been moved to /usr/share/ovmf/x86_64/ovmf.bin
- qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -net none -m 1024 -bios /usr/share/ovmf/x86_64/bios.bin
+ OVMF now support NV VAR storage within the OVMF image if QEMU flash (-pflash) is supported
+ This requires write access by QEMU to the OVMF image
+ For more info see http://sourceforge.net/p/tianocore/edk2/ci/e58e5bcd23badac8ef91d3bcc73baac3ca27e2ae/
+
+ To test OVMF X64 in QEMU (use >= v1.5), run:
+
+ \$ cp /usr/share/ovmf/x86_64/ovmf.bin ~/ovmf.bin
+ \$ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -net none -m 1024 -pflash ~/ovmf.bin
+
+ NOTE: The command is not -bios , it is -pflash now
EOF