From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVc0y-0007zs-9Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:29:48 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVc0w-0007zf-Cd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:29:47 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40525 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVc0w-0007zc-9D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:29:46 -0500 Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.46.154]:13550) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVc0w-0006yG-0Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:29:46 -0500 Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 6so124944ywa.82 for ; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:29:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <498CE3F1.2030604@codemonkey.ws> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:29:21 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Support diskless PC References: <498CB609.5000403@mail.berlios.de> <498CCB95.5030501@codemonkey.ws> <498CD334.8070809@web.de> In-Reply-To: <498CD334.8070809@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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 > >