[SeaBIOS] Marvell 88SE9230 passthrough in KVM takes long time to boot

[Laszlo Ersek]

side comment:

On 07/29/18 21:43, Konrad Eisele wrote:

> changed /usr/bin/kvm (which
> libvirtd is calling at boot)
> qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -bios /usr/lib/qemu/bios.bin "$@"

This should not be necessary. Libvirt lets you specify the desired
firmware in the domain XML:

https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsOSBIOS

In this case, it should be

  <os>
    <loader>/path/to/your/bios.bin</loader>
  </os>

Thanks
Laszlo