Re: /usr/shared/qemu binaries

[BALATON Zoltan]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 1/12/22 14:56, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > Those are UEFI firmware images which are suitable for using with
> > the arm/aarch64 "virt" board. They're only used if the user specifically
> > asks to use them on the command line (eg with
> > "-drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=pc-bios/edk2-aarch64-code.fd" or
> > similar).
>
> There must be lots of zeros in there. Maybe we should tell QEMU to unpack 
> firmware .gz or .lzo files?

May be a crazy idea, but could the above command read format=qcov2 files 
that don't need to have the zeros or may be compressed without adding any 
more support to QEMU? (Or any other compressed format already supprted by 
-drive if there are any.)

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan