From c391359ac39756f6fc5ba16105ada030976de5f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jdoubleu <hi@jdoubleu.de>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 23:03:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] implement support for persistent mount

---
 src/args.rs |  3 +++
 src/main.rs | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/args.rs b/src/args.rs
index e0aad83..72c234c 100644
--- a/src/args.rs
+++ b/src/args.rs
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ pub struct Args {
     /// This effectively skips the 5 second startup delay.
     #[clap(long, short = 'd')]
     pub boot: bool,
+    /// Mount a persistent store which may be used by OVMF to store non-volatile variables
+    #[clap(long, short = 'p')]
+    pub persistent: bool,
 }
 
 impl Args {
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 5dbaa5e..c30b3e1 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -73,6 +73,29 @@ fn main() {
         .additional_args
         .extend(args.qemu_args.iter().cloned());
 
+    // Prepare persistent mount
+    if args.persistent {
+        let persistent_image_path = {
+            let mut base = std::env::home_dir().unwrap_or(PathBuf::from("/"));
+            base.push(".uefi-run.persistent.fat");
+            base
+        };
+
+        if !persistent_image_path.exists() {
+            EfiImage::new(&persistent_image_path, 0x40_0000)
+                .expect("Failed to create persistent image");
+        }
+
+        qemu_config.drives.insert(
+            0,
+            QemuDriveConfig {
+                file: persistent_image_path.to_str().unwrap().to_string(),
+                media: "disk".to_string(),
+                format: "raw".to_string(),
+            },
+        )
+    }
+
     // Run qemu
     let mut qemu_process = qemu_config.run().expect("Failed to start qemu");