From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>,
Hai Shan Bai <haishan.bai@gmail.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH - V3] Port codes from qemu-kvm to support booting from SCSI disk image
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:44:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6E327B.4060505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <632E0D52-7618-4184-990D-2918E51A61BC@suse.de>
On 08/18/10 17:16, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
>> This has been discussed several times before. The proper solution
>> is to teach the bios how to boot off SCSI devices. IIRC support for
>> virtio devices already exists, implementing support for the SCSI
>> controller shouldn't be that much harder.
>
> Couldn't we just have an option rom for the SCSI controller? The same
> way the VGABIOS is a rewrite of a VGA BIOS for the Cirrus Logic...
There already is one. Needs qemu 0.12.4 or newer. Unfortunaly it isn't
redistributable, so we can't easily integrate it. Thus seabios support
or a free option rom would still be nice to have.
Fetch
http://www.lsi.com/DistributionSystem/AssetDocument/files/support/ssp/sdms/Bios/lsi_bios.zip
-> unzip -> boot with "-option-rom 8xx_64.rom"
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-20 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-18 2:06 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH - V3] Port codes from qemu-kvm to support booting from SCSI disk image Hai Shan Bai
2010-08-18 2:20 ` haishan
2010-08-18 15:08 ` Paul Brook
2010-08-18 15:16 ` Alexander Graf
2010-08-18 15:31 ` Haishan Bai
2010-08-18 15:37 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-08-18 16:04 ` Paul Brook
2010-08-19 18:14 ` Blue Swirl
2010-08-18 15:54 ` Paul Brook
2010-08-20 7:44 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2010-08-20 13:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-20 14:09 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-08-20 14:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-21 14:20 ` Kevin O'Connor
2010-08-23 8:52 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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