Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] Support for booting from virtio disks

2010-05-09 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 05:31:16PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > Neat! I believe SeaBIOS will see virtio-blk devices as harddisks and > not attempt to boot ISOs? Many existing OS installers probably cannot > boot from virtio-blk, but in the

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] Support for booting from virtio disks

2010-05-09 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: Neat! I believe SeaBIOS will see virtio-blk devices as harddisks and not attempt to boot ISOs? Many existing OS installers probably cannot boot from virtio-blk, but in the longer term folks might like to get rid of ATAPI CD-ROMs in their VMs.