acrn-hypervisor/doc/user-guides/hv-parameters.rst
Victor Sun 780c87d9da doc: add hv parameter usage
The hv parameter could be configured in GRUB menu, currently we support
"uart=" parameter to override uart settings.

The patch also has modifications on tutorial of using_grub.

Signed-off-by: Victor Sun <victor.sun@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
2020-06-17 21:10:42 -07:00

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.. _hv-parameters:
ACRN Hypervisor Parameters
##########################
Generic hypervisor parameters
*****************************
The ACRN hypervisor supports the following parameter:
+-----------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Parameter | Value | Description |
+=================+=============================+========================================================================================+
| | disabled | This disables the serial port completely. |
| +-----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| uart= | bdf@<BDF value> | This sets the PCI serial port based on its BDF. e.g. bdf@0:18.1 |
| +-----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| | port@<port address> | This sets the serial port address. |
+-----------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
The Generic hypervisor parameters are specified in the GRUB multiboot/multiboot2 command.
For example:
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menuentry 'Boot ACRN hypervisor from multiboot' {
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
echo 'Loading ACRN hypervisor ...'
multiboot --quirk-modules-after-kernel /boot/acrn.32.out uart=bdf@0:18.1
module /boot/bzImage Linux_bzImage
module /boot/bzImage2 Linux_bzImage2
}
For de-privilege mode, the parameters are specified in the ``efibootmgr -u`` command:
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$ sudo efibootmgr -c -l "\EFI\acrn\acrn.efi" -d /dev/sda -p 1 -L "ACRN NUC Hypervisor" \
-u "uart=disabled"
De-privilege mode hypervisor parameters
***************************************
The de-privilege mode hypervisor parameters can only be specified in the efibootmgr command.
Currently we support the ``bootloader=`` parameter:
+-----------------+-------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Parameter | Value | Description |
+=================+=================================================+=========================================================================+
| bootloader= | ``\EFI\org.clearlinux\bootloaderx64.efi`` | This sets the EFI executable to be loaded once the hypervisor is up |
| | | and running. This is typically the bootloader of the Service OS. |
| | | i.e. : ``\EFI\org.clearlinux\bootloaderx64.efi`` |
+-----------------+-------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
For example:
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$ sudo efibootmgr -c -l "\EFI\acrn\acrn.efi" -d /dev/sda -p 1 -L "ACRN NUC Hypervisor" \
-u "bootloader=\EFI\boot\bootloaderx64.efi"