[Libguestfs] [PATCH 0/2] Use -bios bios-fast.bin where supported.

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue May 17 15:29:39 UTC 2016


NOTE: Not for upstream, yet.

This depends on 3 non-upstream patches.

 - The qemu rework in libguestfs, which in turn depends on what
   Pino is up to.

 - Support for '-L ?' in qemu:
   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/threads.html#02596

 - Support for bios-fast.bin in qemu:
   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/threads.html#02408

This commit uses -bios bios-fast.bin if available, which basically
stops SeaBIOS from trying to do PCI probing during boot, which is a
waste of time when using the -kernel option.

Rich.




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