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Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios
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H. Peter Anvin |
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Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios |
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Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:33:16 -0700 |
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On 10/12/2010 01:01 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 02:15:26PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Really, this kind of comes down to having a data structure that anything
>> (Qemu, SeaBIOS and if needed the guest OS) can read and modify as needed.
>>
> But then QEMU and seabios will have to have shared storage they can
> both write too. And this shared storage is part of VM now so you need
> to carry it around when you move your VM elsewhere.
>
Yes, and it's part of real hardware, too. It's usually called "the
CMOS", short for CMOS RAM.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, (continued)
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, H. Peter Anvin, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Sebastian Herbszt, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, H. Peter Anvin, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/12
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios,
H. Peter Anvin <=
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/12
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, H. Peter Anvin, 2010/10/12
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/12
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, H. Peter Anvin, 2010/10/12
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/12
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, H. Peter Anvin, 2010/10/13
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, H. Peter Anvin, 2010/10/13
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, H. Peter Anvin, 2010/10/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/11