From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35? Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:52:06 +0300 Message-ID: <4C599AB6.9050108@redhat.com> References: <20100803190525.GB16570@redhat.com> <4C586AB9.5040302@codemonkey.ws> <4C586CF9.7030206@redhat.com> <4C588804.5060803@redhat.com> <4C590046.2020705@redhat.com> <4C591D48.9080301@redhat.com> <4C592218.3000901@redhat.com> <4C596549.1070109@codemonkey.ws> <20100804130709.GL10499@redhat.com> <4C5967D8.7080707@codemonkey.ws> <20100804133401.GP10499@redhat.com> <4C5970AC.6060105@codemonkey.ws> <4C5995B4.90505@redhat.com> <4C5996F4.6010205@redhat.com> <4C5998F1.4030001@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gleb Natapov , Gerd Hoffmann , "Richard W.M. Jones" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:29750 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756358Ab0HDQwQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:52:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4C5998F1.4030001@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/04/2010 07:44 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > The option rom stuff has a number of short comings. Because we hijack > int19, extboot doesn't get to run. That means that if you use -kernel > to load a grub (the Ubuntu guys for their own absurd reasons) then > grub does not see extboot backed disks. The solution for them is the > same, generate a proper disk and boot from that disk. > Let's print it out and hand out leaflets at the upcoming kvm forum. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.