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 romfile=/root/rom

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: [

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 i

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 scs

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 > >> ma

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), a

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

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 ne

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 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 in

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/ f

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. >

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 wi

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 h

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 fin

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 > >> b

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. Loo

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 19e

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