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From: Cam Macdonell <cam-edFDblaTWIyXbbII50Afww@public.gmane.org>
To: ron minnich <rminnich-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: breaking kvm :-)
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:23:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46EADF9C.5050909@cs.ualberta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10706301443r57243047of1939d7aa39379b8-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>


Hi Ron,

This would be interesting to try, especially if booting is noticeably 
faster that bochs.

Did you get that how-to up?

Thanks,
Cam

ron minnich wrote:
> Somebody here at OLS was asking me about linuxbios on kvm. Well, that
> was too much to resist.
> 
> Short form: it works, uses a grub-like interface that does not use
> BIOS callbacks. It's noticeably faster to boot than Bochs. I realize
> that it's all pretty fast but linuxbios is 32-bit code, so there is
> pretty much no emulation to worry about.
> 
> So, if anyone gets annoyed watching bochs boot, I can put a howto on
> the linuxbios wiki. It's pretty trivial to set up.
> 
> ron
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-14 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-30 21:43 breaking kvm :-) ron minnich
     [not found] ` <13426df10706301443r57243047of1939d7aa39379b8-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-07-01  5:29   ` Anthony Liguori
2007-07-02 10:20   ` Arnd Bergmann
     [not found]     ` <200707021220.20753.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>
2007-07-02 15:50       ` ron minnich
2007-09-14 19:23   ` Cam Macdonell [this message]
     [not found]     ` <46EADF9C.5050909-edFDblaTWIyXbbII50Afww@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-14 19:31       ` Jorge Lucángeli Obes
2007-09-15 15:27       ` ron minnich

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