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qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU

Thom Holwerda 2015-05-24 OS News No Comments

Enter qboot, a minimal x86 firmware that runs on QEMU and, together with a slimmed-down QEMU configuration, boots a virtual machine in 40 milliseconds on an Ivy Bridge Core i7 processor.

The code’s on github.

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