On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Anup Patel <808...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Public bug reported: > > There is no command line option like -kerner, or -initrd to load an > arbitrary binary file to a RAM location when launching QEMU.
It depends on your target (e.g. qemu-system-x86_64) but you can load your own code as a bzImage or multiboot binary. Both formats are documented: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob_plain;f=Documentation/x86/boot.txt http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.html The problem with loading binary code is that you quickly want some options (is this real mode or protected mode code?, what address to load at?, are there any modules/initrd extras elsewhere in memory?). That's basically what multiboot is for. Does multiboot do what you need? If not, please be more specific and describe your target machine and use case. Stefan
