[libvirt] Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] port over extboot from kvm

Anthony Liguori anthony at codemonkey.ws
Tue Sep 8 19:39:59 UTC 2009


Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> 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.

It assumes support for both in option roms.  The big advantage to gpxe 
is that it already has generic scsi support.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> cheers,
>   Gerd




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