Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-16 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, Now, I've a question: what seabios implementation of extboot we're talking about? seabios boots natively from virtio now, so for that use case extboot isn't needed any more. -option-rom which is impossible to select as a first boot device? 'qemu-kvm -option-rom

qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Jan Kiszka
Hi all, the vgabios hash qemu-kvm points to does not exist in the referenced repository. I was trying to find out the status of qemu-kvm's bios binaries and relevance of what is in the kvm/ folder. Looks like this is a bit messy... Jan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Avi Kivity
On 01/15/2012 01:14 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: Hi all, the vgabios hash qemu-kvm points to does not exist in the referenced repository. I was trying to find out the status of qemu-kvm's bios binaries and relevance of what is in the kvm/ folder. Looks like this is a bit messy... I have

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2012-01-15 13:33, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 01:14 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: Hi all, the vgabios hash qemu-kvm points to does not exist in the referenced repository. I was trying to find out the status of qemu-kvm's bios binaries and relevance of what is in the kvm/ folder. Looks like

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Avi Kivity
On 01/15/2012 02:39 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2012-01-15 13:33, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 01:14 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: Hi all, the vgabios hash qemu-kvm points to does not exist in the referenced repository. I was trying to find out the status of qemu-kvm's bios binaries and

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2012-01-15 13:42, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 02:39 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2012-01-15 13:33, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 01:14 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: Hi all, the vgabios hash qemu-kvm points to does not exist in the referenced repository. I was trying to find out the status of

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Avi Kivity
On 01/15/2012 02:44 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: OK, thanks. As that repos is now the vgabios reference, nothing valuable can be lost when we drop the kvm/ folder, right? I guess so. What about extboot w/ -M pc-0.foo? I guess we'll boot with a newer seabios in any case, but we probably will have

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2012-01-15 13:49, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 02:44 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: OK, thanks. As that repos is now the vgabios reference, nothing valuable can be lost when we drop the kvm/ folder, right? I guess so. What about extboot w/ -M pc-0.foo? I guess we'll boot with a newer

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Avi Kivity
On 01/15/2012 02:50 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2012-01-15 13:49, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 02:44 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: OK, thanks. As that repos is now the vgabios reference, nothing valuable can be lost when we drop the kvm/ folder, right? I guess so. What about extboot

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2012-01-15 13:53, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 02:50 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2012-01-15 13:49, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 02:44 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: OK, thanks. As that repos is now the vgabios reference, nothing valuable can be lost when we drop the kvm/ folder, right? I

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Avi Kivity
On 01/15/2012 02:55 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: Yeah, but it isn't history for people running older qemu-kvm's. We don't need extboot itself, but we do need to keep the boot option (as 2a06 does). The question is do we need to preserve its meaning too (with the seabios implementation instead

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 15.01.2012 16:53, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 02:50 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: [] extboot is history since 2a06024dc1b1e27b1be0266379af397e61b4a9ad Yeah, but it isn't history for people running older qemu-kvm's. We don't need extboot itself, but we do need to keep the boot option (as

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Avi Kivity
On 01/15/2012 03:10 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: On 15.01.2012 16:53, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 02:50 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: [] extboot is history since 2a06024dc1b1e27b1be0266379af397e61b4a9ad Yeah, but it isn't history for people running older qemu-kvm's. We don't need extboot

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Michael Tokarev
On 15.01.2012 17:18, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 03:10 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] FWIW, I had to patch extboot back in for debian qemu-kvm 1.0, because of lack of boot support from scsi (and no alternative), and because many people's scripts who used boot= broke. I thought it is better

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 05:27:39PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: On 15.01.2012 17:18, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 03:10 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] FWIW, I had to patch extboot back in for debian qemu-kvm 1.0, because of lack of boot support from scsi (and no alternative), and

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Avi Kivity
On 01/15/2012 03:27 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: On 15.01.2012 17:18, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 03:10 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] FWIW, I had to patch extboot back in for debian qemu-kvm 1.0, because of lack of boot support from scsi (and no alternative), and because many people's

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2012-01-15 14:39, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 03:27 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: On 15.01.2012 17:18, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 03:10 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] FWIW, I had to patch extboot back in for debian qemu-kvm 1.0, because of lack of boot support from scsi (and no

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 03:21:45PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2012-01-15 14:39, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 03:27 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: On 15.01.2012 17:18, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 03:10 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] FWIW, I had to patch extboot back in for debian

Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

2012-01-15 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2012-01-15 15:29, Gleb Natapov wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 03:21:45PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2012-01-15 14:39, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 03:27 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: On 15.01.2012 17:18, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/15/2012 03:10 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: [] FWIW, I had to