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Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel?
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel? |
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Fri, 1 Apr 2016 10:51:31 +0200 |
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On 01/04/2016 10:47, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> It's so we can handle error reports. When someone reports that
> libguestfs "hangs", it's sometimes useful to know if the BIOS was
> entered or not, since it points the finger at either qemu, BIOS or
> kernel. (Remember we have to be able to run on a whole variety of
> Linux distros which often have old/broken/random qemu/bios/kernel).
Sure, but that can be an extra option if sgabios adds overhead.
Anyhow, you probably want "-vga none" too.
Paolo
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel?, Richard W.M. Jones, 2016/04/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel?, Paolo Bonzini, 2016/04/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel?, Richard W.M. Jones, 2016/04/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel?, Paolo Bonzini, 2016/04/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel?, Richard W.M. Jones, 2016/04/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel?, Paolo Bonzini, 2016/04/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel?, Vasiliy Tolstov, 2016/04/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel?, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2016/04/01