Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] kvm tools, seabios: Add "--bios" option to "vm run"

Gleb Natapov
2012-02-27T11:15:37Z

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:44:57AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > So looking at SeaBIOS code, it seems to me we could simply make LKVM
> > lie to it by claiming to be coreboot and get away with it, no? We'd
> > basically avoid all the PCI allocation passes and such.
>
> I doubt this is going to fly if you want seabios boot from a
> virtio-blk-pci device ...
>
AFAIK kvm-tool initialize PCI by itself so it actually may work (and,
very likely, the best thing to do).

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Gleb.