On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:36:01 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@freegeek.org>
writes:
> understandable. using the logic that the proposed new etherboot
> package would only include roms useful to virtual machines also
> present in the archive could hopefully keep the scope of the package
> sane.
If I understand correctly, the problems are:
- etherboot ships with rom.gz, which is not usable by qemu, (major)
- etherboot installed package size is 32MB (minor).
I don't think we have to solve the second point, everyone who is using a
virtualization system can afford the files to be installed, I think a
new binary package is a bigger bloat in this case. (For everyone, even
for users, who doesn't know or care about what etherboot or qemu/kvm
is.)
We can solve the first problem in different ways:
- via a new binary package which contains the mentioned roms
uncompressed,
- adding libz support to qemu, (how hard this would be?)
- ship the mentioned roms in the etherboot package uncompressed.
If option 2 is too hard, I prefer option 3. What is your opinion, it is
a little change in the binary package, nobody will really notice and
only affect people who have etherboot installed.
After this change, kvm/qemu can recommmend on etherboot if they want to
use the roms for pxe support (or depend on it if having the roms are
mandatory for kvm/qemu to even start up).
Gergely
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