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Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2


From: Gleb Natapov
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35?
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 10:34:47 +0300

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 09:28:57AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> >The option rom stuff has a number of short comings. Because we hijack
> >int19, extboot doesn't get to run. That means that if you use -kernel to
> >load a grub (the Ubuntu guys for their own absurd reasons) then grub
> >does not see extboot backed disks. The solution for them is the same,
> >generate a proper disk and boot from that disk.
> 
> Oh, having extboot + linuxboot + multiboot register a BEV (correct
> acronym?) entry instead of hijacking int19 would fix that too.
> Additional bonus will be that they are selectable in the boot menu.
> 
Good idea except that we are not good at communicating to seabios where
do we want to boot from by default.

--
                        Gleb.



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