[Qemu-devel] PC machine types switched to SeaBIOS/gPXE

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Hi,

I just wanted to let everyone know that I've switched the PC machine 
type to SeaBIOS and gPXE.  SeaBIOS is a port of the Bochs BIOS to GCC, 
by Kevin O'Conner, along with quite a lot of clean up and new feature work.

gPXE is the new development tree of etherboot which is now deprecated.  
We've done a lot of testing of and while there are a few outstanding 
issues, almost everything seems to be working okay.

Some known issues:
 o e1000 pxe booting doesn't seem to work
 o gPXE does not like the slirp tftp server
 o SeaBIOS doesn't support CPU hotplug (not an issue for upstream qemu)

I've renamed the old pcbios to pcbios.bin.  If you suspect a bug in 
SeaBIOS, you can use "-bios pcbios.bin" to try with the old BIOS in an 
effort to debug.

I want to thank everyone who helped make this all happen.  It was a big 
effort and I think it's going to be a really nice feature for the 0.12.0 
release!

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori