Booting a `supermin` appliance with `qboot`
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Build an appliance
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    $ mkdir basic-supermin.d
    $ supermin --prepare bash coreutils -o basic-supermin.d

    $ mkdir basic-full-appliance
    $ supermin --build -f ext2 \
        --copy-kernel --host-cpu "$(uname -m)" \
        -o basic-full-appliance \
        basic-supermin.d 
    

Compile `qboot` firmware
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Clone the source:

    $ git clone https://github.com/bonzini/qboot.git

Compile the qboot firmware (you may need to install the relevant build
time dependancies):

    $ make


Boot the appliance with the above firmware
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    $ ~/build/qboot-qemu/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 \
        -bios ~/src/qboot/bios.bin \
        -kernel kernel -initrd initrd \
        -serial stdio \
        -append 'console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda' \
        -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi \
        -drive file=./root,format=raw,if=none,id=hd0 \
        -device scsi-hd,drive=hd0