[ovirt-users] QEMU custom bios and machine setup

[Harry Mallon]

Hello all,

Thanks for the tip Dan. I thought I would write up what I did for future people searching this list.

I added the QEMU command line hook from github oVirt/vdsm (https://github.com/oVirt/vdsm/tree/master/vdsm_hooks/qemucmdline) to /usr/libexec/vdsm/hooks/before_vm_start/ on my hosts.

Then I added the Custom Arguments to the config on my machine with the engine running
engine-config -g UserDefinedVMProperties # print current args and add them to the next line
engine-config -s UserDefinedVMProperties='qemu_cmdline=^.*$' --cver=4.2

Then I was able to add the JSON list of args to the machines in the oVirt UI.

Thanks for your help,
Harry


Harry Mallon
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