qemu wont load hvmloader as pc bios

2019-09-26 Thread David Lai
Hi I hope this is the correct mailing list to send to. If not please let me know a better channel to send this. I havent been able to google anything. Also let me know if I should enable additional logging or whatever. I have a VM under KVM which loads its kernel from the host. This works f

Re: [RFC PATCH] configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts

2019-09-26 Thread Alex Bennée
Alistair Francis writes: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 8:41 AM Alex Bennée wrote: >> >> >> Thomas Huth writes: >> >> > On 26/09/2019 15.46, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On 26.09.19 14:58, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 08:50:36AM +0100, Peter Maydell wr

Re: [RFC PATCH] configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts

2019-09-26 Thread Richard Henderson
On 9/26/19 12:50 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 00:31, Alex Bennée wrote: >> >> The 32 bit hosts are already a second class citizen especially with >> support for running 64 bit guests under TCG. We are also limited by >> testing as actual working 32 bit machines are getting qui

Re: [RFC PATCH] configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts

2019-09-26 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 26/09/2019 17:31, Alex Bennée wrote: Peter Maydell writes: On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 00:31, Alex Bennée wrote: The 32 bit hosts are already a second class citizen especially with support for running 64 bit guests under TCG. We are also limited by testing as actual working 32 bit machines are

Re: [RFC PATCH] configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts

2019-09-26 Thread Thomas Huth
On 26/09/2019 15.46, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > > On 26.09.19 14:58, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 08:50:36AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 00:31, Alex Bennée wrote: The 32 bit hosts are already a second class citizen especially wit

Re: [RFC PATCH] configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts

2019-09-26 Thread Thomas Huth
On 26/09/2019 01.30, Alex Bennée wrote: > The 32 bit hosts are already a second class citizen especially with > support for running 64 bit guests under TCG. We are also limited by > testing as actual working 32 bit machines are getting quite rare in > developers personal menageries. For TCG support

Re: [RFC PATCH] configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts

2019-09-26 Thread Alistair Francis
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 8:41 AM Alex Bennée wrote: > > > Thomas Huth writes: > > > On 26/09/2019 15.46, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 26.09.19 14:58, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > >>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 08:50:36AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 00:31

Re: [RFC PATCH] configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts

2019-09-26 Thread Christian Borntraeger
On 26.09.19 14:58, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 08:50:36AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 00:31, Alex Bennée wrote: >>> >>> The 32 bit hosts are already a second class citizen especially with >>> support for running 64 bit guests under TCG. We are a

Re: [RFC PATCH] configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts

2019-09-26 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
On 9/26/19 1:30 AM, Alex Bennée wrote: > The 32 bit hosts are already a second class citizen especially with > support for running 64 bit guests under TCG. We are also limited by > testing as actual working 32 bit machines are getting quite rare in > developers personal menageries. For TCG supporti

Re: [RFC PATCH] configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts

2019-09-26 Thread Alex Bennée
Peter Maydell writes: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 00:31, Alex Bennée wrote: >> >> The 32 bit hosts are already a second class citizen especially with >> support for running 64 bit guests under TCG. We are also limited by >> testing as actual working 32 bit machines are getting quite rare in >> de

Re: [RFC PATCH] configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts

2019-09-26 Thread Alex Bennée
Thomas Huth writes: > On 26/09/2019 01.30, Alex Bennée wrote: >> The 32 bit hosts are already a second class citizen especially with >> support for running 64 bit guests under TCG. We are also limited by >> testing as actual working 32 bit machines are getting quite rare in >> developers person

Re: [RFC PATCH] configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts

2019-09-26 Thread Alex Bennée
Thomas Huth writes: > On 26/09/2019 15.46, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >> >> >> On 26.09.19 14:58, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 08:50:36AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 00:31, Alex Bennée wrote: > > The 32 bit hosts are already a seco

Re: [RFC PATCH] configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts

2019-09-26 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 08:50:36AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 00:31, Alex Bennée wrote: > > > > The 32 bit hosts are already a second class citizen especially with > > support for running 64 bit guests under TCG. We are also limited by > > testing as actual working 32 bit

qcow2 to vmdk (best conversion)

2019-09-26 Thread Konstantinos Papadopoulos
Hello, I regularly convert a qcow2 to vmdk format, however the size of the resulting vmdk image size is always greater than the size of the qcow2 image. qemu-img convert -f qcow2 foo1.qcow2 -O vmdk foo2.vmdk -p For a example for a qcow2 image of ~2Gb the resulting vmdk is ~4Gb Is there a way (opt

Re: [RFC PATCH] configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts

2019-09-26 Thread Peter Maydell
On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 00:31, Alex Bennée wrote: > > The 32 bit hosts are already a second class citizen especially with > support for running 64 bit guests under TCG. We are also limited by > testing as actual working 32 bit machines are getting quite rare in > developers personal menageries. For