[libvirt] Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] port over extboot from kvm
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Sep 8 19:03:27 UTC 2009
On 09/08/09 19:12, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> I'm still not convinced we need extboot for all bioses on the long term.
>> And I think we should define new interfaces in a way that finally makes
>> it obsolete, at least for our "home bios" (whatever it will be).
>
> What we won't need long term is the extboot interface (hw/extboot.c).
> Ideally, we would rewrite the extboot option rom to have a proper
> virtio-blk driver in it. Better yet, to finish up Laurent's work of
> adding virtio-blk support to gpxe since it gives us bcv for free.
That doesn't cover booting from scsi.
It also doesn't cover booting from usb.
cheers,
Gerd
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