Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 09/05/2012 18:10, Michael Tokarev ha scritto:
> 
> The old hacks which were prematurely removed from qemu-kvm makes the
> life easier for the _user_, which is the main target of the software.
> I'd love to stop using them but sometimes it is not possible.  With
> this extboot thing, qemu-kvm dropped ability to boot from SCSI for
> example, and it turns out there are quite some users of this interface
> exists - despite the fact SCSI is broken, there is a proprietary
> bootrom exists etc -- we just broke users setups without providing
> viable alternative, which, to my view, is unacceptable.

You were using a fork, and this implies some risks of things being
broken when upstream decides to do differently (e.g. extboot vs.
implementing boot support in SeaBIOS).

As far as I know, no feature was removed from upstream QEMU.

Paolo