Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Fix -kernel with SeaBIOS v2

[Alexander Graf]

On 20.11.2009, at 12:31, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:53:41AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > Works great here:
> >
> > ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic -kernel ../bzImage -
> > append console=ttyS0 -L pc-bios
> >
> > Are you sure you also have the follow-up linuxboot patch applied? The
> > one "fixing BOCHS bios support". If it still doesn't work, make sure
> > booting works at all without -kernel.
>
> Hmm.  Tried without -enable-kvm and then it works, so it seems it's  
> only
> broken when using KVM support.

Works here as well:

address@hidden:~/work/qemu-late-int19/qemu> ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system- 
x86_64 -nographic -kernel ../bzImage -append console=ttyS0 -L pc-bios - 
enable-kvm
[    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.32-rc7 (address@hidden) (gcc version 4.3.4  
(Debian 4.3.4-5) ) #448 SMP Wed Nov 18 18:01:25 CET 2009


> Btw, it seems like seabios takes quite a bit longer than pc bios to  
> load
> the kernel, mostly while the gPXE line is displayed.

Yeah, I really wish we could disable gPXE for default boots. Usually  
nobody wants to -boot n anyways, and if they do they can specify that  
IMHO.


Alex