Initial Deployment

Initial deployment of Dasharo (coreboot+UEFI) firmware on QEMU Q35 does not need any special actions. QEMU Q35 is an emulated platform, not real hardware.

Running the Dasharo (coreboot+UEFI) is as simple as invoking a QEMU command:

qemu-system-x86_64 -machine q35,smm=on \
    -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=build/coreboot.rom

This is the minimal set of parameters that are always required, but you may add more to e.g. connect additional devices or redirect serial output to a file. Refer to QEMU documentation for list of possible options.

If you use system without graphical output you may face following issues:

gtk initialization failed

In such case add -nographic at the end of your command.