From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Support diskless PC
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:29:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <498CE3F1.2030604@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <498CD334.8070809@web.de>
Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>> Stefan Weil wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> there is no reason why Qemu should not be able to emulate
>>> a diskless PC. This patch allows this configuration
>>> without tricks like dummy disks.
>>>
>>>
>> What circumstance would you run a VM with no disk, without -kernel, and
>> without -boot n?
>>
>
> For custom BIOSes that are the boot image or retrieve it from somewhere.
>
Well in that case, nodisk should just be completely removed. There is
no architecture that doesn't at least run a bios of some form.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Jan
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-07 1:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-06 22:13 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support diskless PC Stefan Weil
2009-02-06 23:41 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-02-06 23:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-02-06 23:45 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-02-07 0:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-02-07 1:29 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-02-07 2:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Remove nodisk_ok machine feature (was: [PATCH] Support diskless PC) Jan Kiszka
2009-02-07 0:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support diskless PC Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
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