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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefan.hajnoczi@uk.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] qemu-kvm: extboot: Keep variables in RAM
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:37:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B7EE860.80103@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B7ED5BE.8030706@siemens.com>

On 02/19/2010 10:17 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>
>> Stefan posted a virtio-blk driver for gPXE.  I like this approach 
>> because it's generally useful (gPXE can be used with any BIOS).
> 
> Does it allow a unified boot device selection, one menu for them all, no
> more "boot=on" workarounds?
> 

Well, it hooks into BBS if the underlying BIOS supports it.  Without BBS
there is no ability to have a unified boot device selection.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-19 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-18 16:13 [PATCH 1/2] qemu-kvm: extboot: Keep variables in RAM Jan Kiszka
2010-02-18 20:27 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-02-18 22:56   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-19 10:06     ` Jan Kiszka
2010-02-19 16:50       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-19 17:03         ` Jan Kiszka
2010-02-19 17:24           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-19 17:44             ` Jan Kiszka
2010-02-19 18:10           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-02-19 18:17             ` Jan Kiszka
2010-02-19 19:37               ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-02-20  3:21                 ` Kevin O'Connor
2010-02-22 10:03               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
     [not found]                 ` <4B82DE3F.5090306@linux.intel.com>
2010-02-23  9:30                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-02-22  9:40 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-22  9:59   ` Jan Kiszka
2010-02-22 10:03     ` Jan Kiszka
2010-02-22 11:02     ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-06  8:50   ` Jan Kiszka

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