The firmware image is copied into the guest memory with the arch specific
function kvm__load_firmware() in kvm__init(). That function ignores the
initrd file, if the user specified one. Let the user know that the file is
ignored by KVM and the --initrd argument does nothing with --firmware.
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@xxxxxxx>
---
builtin-run.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/builtin-run.c b/builtin-run.c
index 8bb8051680b1..083c7a2abea7 100644
--- a/builtin-run.c
+++ b/builtin-run.c
@@ -516,6 +516,9 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_cmd_run_init(int argc, const char **argv)
if (kvm->cfg.kernel_filename && kvm->cfg.firmware_filename)
die("Only one of --kernel or --firmware can be specified");
+ if (kvm->cfg.firmware_filename && kvm->cfg.initrd_filename)
+ pr_warning("Ignoring initrd file when loading a firmware image");
+
if (!kvm->cfg.kernel_filename && !kvm->cfg.firmware_filename) {
kvm->cfg.kernel_filename = find_kernel();
--
2.31.1
