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## Task 1a - Fetch the BIOS (AArch64 only)

If you are going to use AArch64, you'll need a UEFI boot-loader because QEMU
doesn't come with one (or at least, the QEMU in homebrew that I used didn't come
with one).

Download it from <https://gist.githubusercontent.com/theboreddev/5f79f86a0f163e4a1f9df919da5eea20/raw/f546faea68f4149c06cca88fa67ace07a3758268/QEMU_EFI-a096471-edk2-stable202011.tar.gz> and unpack it.

```bash
wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/theboreddev/5f79f86a0f163e4a1f9df919da5eea20/raw/f546faea68f4149c06cca88fa67ace07a3758268/QEMU_EFI-a096471-edk2-stable202011.tar.gz
tar xvf QEMU_EFI-a096471-edk2-stable202011.tar.gz
```

(Windows users, use your favourite tools for this)
If you are going to use AArch64, you'll need a UEFI boot-loader. On macOS,
homebrew installs a copy of [EDK2](https://github.com/tianocore/edk2), which is
fine for our use-case. On my machine it was installed into
`/opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu/9.2.2/share/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd`. You'll need
to have a look in your QEMU installation directory to find where your copy is.
Once you have found it, copy it to `./QEMU_EFI.fd`, which is what the following
`qemu-system-aarch64` command lines expect.

When emulating x86-64, QEMU uses a copy of SeaBIOS automatically.

## Task 2 - Resize the disk image

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