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?
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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]
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2009-08-26 2:31 Glauber Costa
2009-08-26 13:55 ` Anthony Liguori
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