From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: kvm-85 won't boot guests with virtio block device Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:46:17 -0500 Message-ID: <49F24F49.3000305@us.ibm.com> References: <20090424171853.GA3798@polyware.nl> <20090424232508.GA15714@amt.cnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pauline Middelink , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Marcelo Tosatti Return-path: Received: from e38.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.159]:51827 "EHLO e38.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753342AbZDXXqT (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:46:19 -0400 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e38.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n3ONhnlg002995 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:43:49 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n3ONkITQ074228 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:46:18 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n3ONkIax010143 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:46:18 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20090424232508.GA15714@amt.cnet> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Pauline, > > Good catch. > > Anthony, what is the reason for extboot not being upstream? > Paul Brook nacked it. He didn't like that it was so x86 specific. I think a better approach that would be mergable is something based on the FW config interface with the driver code living as a patch to the Bochs BIOS. -- Regards, Anthony Liguori