Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH - V2] Port codes from qemu-kvm to support booting from SCSI disk image

[haishan]

Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:25:26AM +0800, Haishan Bai wrote:
>   
> > There is code indentation errors in my previous post, I am sorry for
> > that, please review this post.
> >
> > The qemu-kvm could boot from SCSI disk image by utilizing seabios,
> > this patch ported codes
> > from qemu-kvm to let upstream qemu to support booting from SCSI disk image.
> >
> > Add 'boot=on' option to qemu command line like following,
> > qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=scsi-disk.img,if=scsi,boot=on
> >
> >
> >     
> This horrible hack should die instead of been ported. It introduce more
> problems that it solves. You want to boot from scsi disk? Add seabios
> support for it.
>
>   

Yes, I added seabios support, but still can not boot from scsi disk, 
because seabios seemed
to depend on extboot.bin, I will investigate seabios SCSI further and 
try it.

Thanks
Shan Hai

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>                         Gleb.
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