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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 11:44:57 +0100
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  Hi,

> So looking at SeaBIOS code, it seems to me we could simply make LKVM
> lie to it by claiming to be coreboot and get away with it, no? We'd
> basically avoid all the PCI allocation passes and such.

I doubt this is going to fly if you want seabios boot from a
virtio-blk-pci device ...

cheers,
  Gerd