Re: [Qemu-block] Configuring pflash devices for OVMF firmware

2019-02-07 Thread Laszlo Ersek
Hi Markus, On 02/07/19 10:30, Markus Armbruster wrote: > The thread got long, let me try to summarize, and elaborate a few > points. > > * The problem at hand is configuring firmware residing in flash memory > (OVMF requires this) without legacy -drive. > > * The wider problem is configuring o

Re: [Qemu-block] Configuring pflash devices for OVMF firmware

2019-02-07 Thread Markus Armbruster
The thread got long, let me try to summarize, and elaborate a few points. * The problem at hand is configuring firmware residing in flash memory (OVMF requires this) without legacy -drive. * The wider problem is configuring onboard devices. Our general device configuration interface doesn't

Re: [Qemu-block] Configuring pflash devices for OVMF firmware

2019-01-28 Thread Laszlo Ersek
(+Peter, keeping the context) On 01/25/19 16:03, Markus Armbruster wrote: > We configure OVMF firmware for PC machine types with -drive if=pflash. > This is pretty much the last remaining use of -drive in libvirt we can't > yet replace by -blockdev. Such a replacement is desirable, because > -blo

[Qemu-block] Configuring pflash devices for OVMF firmware

2019-01-25 Thread Markus Armbruster
We configure OVMF firmware for PC machine types with -drive if=pflash. This is pretty much the last remaining use of -drive in libvirt we can't yet replace by -blockdev. Such a replacement is desirable, because -blockdev + -device is more flexible than -drive if=pflash. Also, once we don't need -