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QEMU and OVMF
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# UEFI considered #harmful

Just don't use UEFI. It's terrible. It's entirely non-standardized. BIOS boot
is exactly the same everywhere, and just works.

# But I Like UEFI

Fine.

```
qemu-system-x86_64 \
    -enable-kvm \
    -M q35,accel=kvm \
    -drive file=OVMF.fd,format=raw,if=pflash,unit=0 \
    -drive file=OVMF_VARS_4M.fd,format=raw,if=pflash,unit=1 \
    ....
```