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author | Attilio Rao <attilio.rao@citrix.com> | 2012-02-29 16:25:38 +0000 |
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committer | Attilio Rao <attilio.rao@citrix.com> | 2012-02-29 16:25:38 +0000 |
commit | 1341ac67a346d29acf95b46ca849414f23f11dde (patch) | |
tree | 58bfa1099bd7a0a1e320fe61bab37bffda2706d0 /docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 | |
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libxl, xl: Add the bios option to specify the bios to load
Signed-off-by: Attilio Rao <attilio.rao@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
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diff --git a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 index 197503f088..55f7e75a16 100644 --- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 +++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 @@ -430,6 +430,33 @@ accept the defaults for these options wherever possible. =over 4 +=item B<bios="STRING"> + +Select the virtual firmware that is exposed to the guest. +By default, a guess is made based on the device model, but sometimes +it may be useful to request a different one, like UEFI. + +=over 4 + +=item B<rombios> + +Loads ROMBIOS, a 16-bit x86 compatible BIOS. This is used by default +when device_model_version=qemu-xen-traditional. This is the only BIOS +option supported when device_model_version=qemu-xen-traditional. This is +the BIOS used by all previous Xen versions. + +=item B<seabios> + +Loads SeaBIOS, a 16-bit x86 compatible BIOS. This is used by default +with device_model_version=qemu-xen. + +=item B<ovmf> + +Loads OVMF, a standard UEFI firmware by Tianocore project. +Requires device_model_version=qemu-xen. + +=back + =item B<pae=BOOLEAN> Hide or expose the IA32 Physical Address Extensions. These extensions |