Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] port over extboot from kvm

[Anthony Liguori]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 11/09/09 17:06, Paul Brook wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > > $subject says pretty much everything.
> > > >
> > > > extboot.[cS] are a straight copy from the kvm tree.  The windup in 
> > > > vl,c
> > > > and hw/pc.c is done slightly different, I've added a function to 
> > > > lookup
> > > > the boot drive instead of adding a new global variable.
> > >
> > > I think the function here is high even if the implementation is ugly.
> > > In the past, Paul strongly objected to this.  Paul, care to comment?
> >
> > Doesn't gpxe support virtio-blk, without requiring any additional qemu
> > "features"?
>
> As far I know patches exist but where never merged.
> Also there is no way to boot from scsi+usb ...

I think Kevin mentioned he would likely to usb boot support for 
SeaBIOS.  Adding virtio-blk support to SeaBIOS would also be pretty 
reasonable.

SCSI is a bit more tough.  Doing an LSI driver in SeaBIOS would be a bit 
tougher.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori