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

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 11/02/2009 02:51 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>    
>> 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!
>>
>>      
> -kernel (w/ Linux) breaks.
>    

What do the dumps mean?  when are they taken?

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