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Expand Up @@ -40,6 +40,19 @@ This configures a virtual machine to use two vCPUs and 2048 MiB of RAM:
--cpus 2 --memory 2048
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## Bootloader Configuration

### EFI bootloader

`--bootloader efi` allows booting a disk image using EFI, which removes the need for providing external kernel/initrd/... jthe disk image bootloader will be started by the EFI firmware, which will in turn know which kernel it should be booting.

#### Arguments
- `variable-store`: path to a file which EFI can use to store its variables
- `create`: indicate whether the `variable-store` file hould be created or not if missing.

> [!NOTE]
> This option is ignored by the commandline. It is added purely for vfkit parity. `krunkit` only supports the EFI bootloader configuration and handles all associated actions without further user configuration.

## Device Configuration

Various virtio devices can be added to a virtual machine. They are all paravirtualized devices that can be
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