From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Cristi Magherusan <Cristi.Magherusan@net.utcluj.ro>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Custom BIOS supported size
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 16:48:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49FEF23E.3020105@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241384925.26848.10.camel@hyperion>
Cristi Magherusan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Which is the maximum size supported for a custom BIOS image(eg.
> coreboot-based)? I tried some 256K coreboot BIOS images and seemed to
> work fine, but it blowed up with a 3MB image (which by the way works on
> qemu just fine).
>
256K is the maximum with kvm. It can easily be increased, but we need a
small kernel change on Intel to store the real-mode TSS.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-03 21:08 Custom BIOS supported size Cristi Magherusan
2009-05-04 13:48 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-05-04 14:09 ` Cristi Magherusan
2009-05-04 14:31 ` Avi Kivity
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