From 1341ac67a346d29acf95b46ca849414f23f11dde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Attilio Rao Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:25:38 +0000 Subject: libxl, xl: Add the bios option to specify the bios to load Signed-off-by: Attilio Rao Acked-by: Ian Campbell Committed-by: Ian Jackson --- docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/man') 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 + +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 + +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 + +Loads SeaBIOS, a 16-bit x86 compatible BIOS. This is used by default +with device_model_version=qemu-xen. + +=item B + +Loads OVMF, a standard UEFI firmware by Tianocore project. +Requires device_model_version=qemu-xen. + +=back + =item B Hide or expose the IA32 Physical Address Extensions. These extensions -- cgit v1.2.3