Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks

2010-05-16 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 07:49:40PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 05/10/2010 06:58 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >>Isn't this problem unrelated to this patch? I mean if I start qemu with > >>two ide devices can I specify from qemu command line which one I want to > >>boot from? > > > >That's sort of

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks

2010-05-13 Thread Avi Kivity
On 05/10/2010 06:58 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Isn't this problem unrelated to this patch? I mean if I start qemu with two ide devices can I specify from qemu command line which one I want to boot from? That's sort of what I'm asking. If you compare this approach to extboot, extboot provided

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks

2010-05-11 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 03:47:40PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:45:29AM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:04:25AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > > From what I can tell SeaBIOS is reading CMOS_BIOS_BOOTFLAG1 and > > > CMOS_BIOS_BOOTFLAG2 from n

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks

2010-05-11 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:45:29AM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:04:25AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > From what I can tell SeaBIOS is reading CMOS_BIOS_BOOTFLAG1 and > > CMOS_BIOS_BOOTFLAG2 from non-volatile memory. The values index into > > bev[], which contains I

Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks

2010-05-11 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:04:25AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > From what I can tell SeaBIOS is reading CMOS_BIOS_BOOTFLAG1 and > CMOS_BIOS_BOOTFLAG2 from non-volatile memory. The values index into > bev[], which contains IPL entries (the drives). > > Is the order of bev[] entries well-defined