From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 09:33:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FAB6F65.80708@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FAA96DF.3090006@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
Il 09/05/2012 18:10, Michael Tokarev ha scritto:
>
> The old hacks which were prematurely removed from qemu-kvm makes the
> life easier for the _user_, which is the main target of the software.
> I'd love to stop using them but sometimes it is not possible. With
> this extboot thing, qemu-kvm dropped ability to boot from SCSI for
> example, and it turns out there are quite some users of this interface
> exists - despite the fact SCSI is broken, there is a proprietary
> bootrom exists etc -- we just broke users setups without providing
> viable alternative, which, to my view, is unacceptable.
You were using a fork, and this implies some risks of things being
broken when upstream decides to do differently (e.g. extboot vs.
implementing boot support in SeaBIOS).
As far as I know, no feature was removed from upstream QEMU.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-10 7:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-07 18:48 [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable? Michael Tokarev
2012-05-08 5:20 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-05-08 5:45 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-05-08 6:43 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-05-08 17:56 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-05-09 8:02 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-05-09 16:10 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-05-10 7:33 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-05-10 12:27 ` Gleb Natapov
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