Re: [Qemu-devel] boot from scsi/virtio?

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 05/15/09 10:46, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> Le vendredi 15 mai 2009 à 10:26 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann a écrit :
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Is it possible to boot from non-ide disks?  kvm has extboot and the
> > -drive ...,boot=on syntax to use it.  That isn't in upstream qemu
> > though.  Is there another way to boot from non-ide disks?  Or is extboot
> > just not yet merged?  Or are there other plans?
>
> I did last year a series of patches to enable virtio boot using gPXE
> add-on ROM:
>
> http://markmail.org/message/qxqvcrzqitpzrsnb

Didn't got merged it seems.  git tree hasn't a block subdir.  Also 
rom-o-magic offers virtio-net only.  And it doesn't solve the scsi 
booting issue, right?

cheers,
  Gerd