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From: Cristi Magherusan <Cristi.Magherusan@net.utcluj.ro>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Custom BIOS supported size
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 17:09:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1241446175.30017.35.camel@hyperion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49FEF23E.3020105@redhat.com>


On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 16:48 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Cristi Magherusan wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Which is the maximum size supported for a custom BIOS image(eg.
> > coreboot-based)? I tried some 256K coreboot BIOS images and seemed to
> > work fine, but it blowed up with a 3MB image (which by the way works on
> > qemu just fine). 
> >   
> 
> 256K is the maximum with kvm.  It can easily be increased, but we need a 
> small kernel change on Intel to store the real-mode TSS.
> 
> 
Hi Avi,

Thanks for your answer. What would be the upper bound up to which we can
extend it? May I somehow help in getting this done?

Best regards,
Cristi

-- 
Ing. Cristi Măgherușan, System/Network Engineer
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
http://cc.utcluj.ro  +40264 401247


  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-04 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-03 21:08 Custom BIOS supported size Cristi Magherusan
2009-05-04 13:48 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-04 14:09   ` Cristi Magherusan [this message]
2009-05-04 14:31     ` Avi Kivity

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