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Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU
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Daniel P. Berrange |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU |
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Fri, 22 May 2015 12:12:59 +0100 |
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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:04:54PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 22 May 2015 at 12:01, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On the QEMU side of things I wonder if there is scope for taking AArch64's
> > 'virt' machine type concept and duplicating it on all architectures.
>
> Experience suggests that holding the line on "minimal" is really
> quite tricky, though -- there's always one more thing that
> somebody really wants to add...
Yep, it is hard saying no - but I'd think as long as it was possible to add
the extra features using -device, it ought to be practical to keep a "virt"
machine types "-nodefaults -nodefconfig" base setup pretty minimal. In
particular I don't see why we need to have a SATA controller and ISA/LPC
bridge in every virt machine - root PCI bus only should be possible, as you
can provide disks via virtio-blk or virtio-scsi and serial, parallel, mouse,
floppy via PCI devices and/or by adding a USB bus in the cases where you
really need one.
Regards,
Daniel
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU, Avi Kivity, 2015/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU, Jan Kiszka, 2015/05/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU, Yong Wang, 2015/05/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU, Daniel P. Berrange, 2015/05/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU, Peter Maydell, 2015/05/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU,
Daniel P. Berrange <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU, Peter Maydell, 2015/05/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU, Daniel P. Berrange, 2015/05/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU, Gerd Hoffmann, 2015/05/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU, Markus Armbruster, 2015/05/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU, Christopher Covington, 2015/05/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/05/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU, Avi Kivity, 2015/05/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/05/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU, Peter Maydell, 2015/05/27