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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] kvm tools, seabios: Add "--bios" option to "vm
 run"
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:37:52 +0100
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To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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On 02/24/12 19:54, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I played around with the "--debug-ioport" command line option and was able 
> to cheat my way past SeaBIOS POST phase. Should SeaBIOS automatically pick 
> up virtio devices and attempt to boot them?

Yes, it can handle virtio-blk (and soon virtio-scsi too).

You probably want to implement the fw_cfg (firmware config) interface
which is used as communication path between qemu and seabios, to pass
around stuff like e820 table and option roms.

Also http://sgabios.googlecode.com/svn/trunk is nice when working with a
serial console.

HTH,
  Gerd