From: haishan <haishan.bai@gmail.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH - V2] Port codes from qemu-kvm to support booting from SCSI disk image
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:01:41 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6B9365.5030203@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100818075330.GY10499@redhat.com>
Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:25:26AM +0800, Haishan Bai wrote:
>
>> There is code indentation errors in my previous post, I am sorry for
>> that, please review this post.
>>
>> The qemu-kvm could boot from SCSI disk image by utilizing seabios,
>> this patch ported codes
>> from qemu-kvm to let upstream qemu to support booting from SCSI disk image.
>>
>> Add 'boot=on' option to qemu command line like following,
>> qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=scsi-disk.img,if=scsi,boot=on
>>
>>
>>
> This horrible hack should die instead of been ported. It introduce more
> problems that it solves. You want to boot from scsi disk? Add seabios
> support for it.
>
>
Yes, I added seabios support, but still can not boot from scsi disk,
because seabios seemed
to depend on extboot.bin, I will investigate seabios SCSI further and
try it.
Thanks
Shan Hai
> --
> Gleb.
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-17 16:25 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH - V2] Port codes from qemu-kvm to support booting from SCSI disk image Haishan Bai
2010-08-18 7:53 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-08-18 8:01 ` haishan [this message]
2010-08-18 8:05 ` Gleb Natapov
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2010-08-18 1:43 haishan
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