qemu-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios


From: Anthony Liguori
Subject: Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:30:21 -0500
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100915 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.8

On 10/11/2010 02:59 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
No boot rom should do that. extboot wreaks havoc when it is used.
And since virtio is now supported by bios there is no reason to use it.

You don't really have a choice. You could be doing hardware passthrough and the ROM on the card may hijack int19.

Whoever needs scsi boot should add it to seabios too.

I don't disagree.

I think the best thing to do is to let SeaBIOS create a boot order table that contains descriptive information and then advertise that to QEMU.

QEMU can then try to associate the list of bootable devices with it's own set of devices and select a preferred order that it can then give back to SeaBIOS. SeaBIOS can then present that list to the user for additional refinement.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

--
                        Gleb.




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]