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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
To: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] proposal : use gpxe roms in upstream qemu
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:58:29 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090826115829.GD3177@mothafucka.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5661696.94001251275728200.JavaMail.servlet@kundenserver>

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:35:28AM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> >Hi people,
> >
> >For a while now, we are using gpxe instead of etherboot in fedora's qemu, with 
> >strong success.
> >etherboot is currently deprecated, and gpxe offers a lot of interesting 
> >features, like iscsi
> >initiator support, besides being actively maintained. I even think with some 
> >effort we may be
> >able to get rid of extboot by using gpxe infrastructure to initiate virtio 
> >disks.
> 
> To boot from a virtio-disk with gPXE you can use my (old) patches:
> 
> http://markmail.org/message/qxqvcrzqitpzrsnb
> 
> This series of patches adds block device boot support.
> 
> The goal is to use gPXE to boot from a virtio-blk device.
> 
> This series has been modified to work with Bochs BIOS with/without BCV or PnP  support.
Any reason for those patches not being merged?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-26 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-26  8:35 [Qemu-devel] proposal : use gpxe roms in upstream qemu Laurent Vivier
2009-08-26 11:58 ` Glauber Costa [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-26  2:31 Glauber Costa
2009-08-26 13:55 ` Anthony Liguori

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