From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M4szz-0007pe-Me for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 04:42:35 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M4szu-0007oh-Gd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 04:42:34 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38858 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M4szu-0007oe-AQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 04:42:30 -0400 Received: from ecfrec.frec.bull.fr ([129.183.4.8]:41830) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M4szt-0002mC-Pz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 04:42:30 -0400 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] boot from scsi/virtio? From: Laurent Vivier In-Reply-To: <4A0D2721.9000708@redhat.com> References: <4A0D2721.9000708@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 10:46:09 +0200 Message-Id: <1242377169.4660.1.camel@frecb07144> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" Le vendredi 15 mai 2009 =C3=A0 10:26 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann a =C3=A9crit : > Hi folks, >=20 > Is it possible to boot from non-ide disks? kvm has extboot and the=20 > -drive ...,boot=3Don syntax to use it. That isn't in upstream qemu=20 > though. Is there another way to boot from non-ide disks? Or is extboo= t=20 > just not yet merged? Or are there other plans? I did last year a series of patches to enable virtio boot using gPXE add-on ROM: http://markmail.org/message/qxqvcrzqitpzrsnb Regards, Laurent --=20 ------------------ Laurent.Vivier@bull.net ------------------ "Tout ce qui est impossible reste =C3=A0 accomplir" Jules Verne "Things are only impossible until they're not" Jean-Luc Picard