Re: qemu-kvm: Inconsistent vgabios reference

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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On 2012-01-15 14:39, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 01/15/2012 03:27 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> On 15.01.2012 17:18, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> On 01/15/2012 03:10 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> []
>>>> FWIW, I had to patch extboot back in for debian qemu-kvm 1.0, because
>>>> of lack of boot support from scsi (and no alternative), and because
>>>> many people's scripts who used boot= broke.  I thought it is better
>>>> to let users to have a chance to perform a smoother transition than
>>>> to break their stuff.
>>>
>>> It's really sad that people have to use lsi scsi.  Luckily qemu 1.1 will
>>> feature virtio-scsi, though of course that doesn't help already
>>> installed guests or non Windows/Linux guests.  Do you know what the use
>>> cases requiring scsi boot are?
>>
>> I've one (not very pleasant) bugreport handy, http://bugs.debian.org/652447
>> and a few private messages asking me for ways to restore booting from scsi,
>> all talking about older/custom systems which worked for years in kvm.
>> As you can see in the bugreport mentioned, I know that scsi is broken
>> and should not be used and so on, and suggested switching from it on
>> every chance.
> 
> Well we don't want to break people's guests.  If the fix Gleb alluded to
> doesn't work, we'll have to restore extboot or something similar.  Let
> us know.

I would vote for proper seabios support or a free option rom. That would
allow us to make progress with obsoleting qemu-kvm instead of making a
step back again.

Jan


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