From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M4tC3-00023F-T1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 04:55:03 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M4tBy-00021E-VN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 04:55:03 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38036 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M4tBy-000218-Od for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 04:54:58 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:42852) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M4tBx-0004P6-Tw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 04:54:58 -0400 Message-ID: <4A0D2DDA.4000507@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 10:54:50 +0200 From: Gerd Hoffmann MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] boot from scsi/virtio? References: <4A0D2721.9000708@redhat.com> <1242377169.4660.1.camel@frecb07144> In-Reply-To: <1242377169.4660.1.camel@frecb07144> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Laurent Vivier Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" On 05/15/09 10:46, Laurent Vivier wrote: > Le vendredi 15 mai 2009 =C3=A0 10:26 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann a =C3=A9crit = : >> Hi folks, >> >> Is it possible to boot from non-ide disks? kvm has extboot and the >> -drive ...,boot=3Don syntax to use it. That isn't in upstream qemu >> though. Is there another way to boot from non-ide disks? Or is extbo= ot >> 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 Didn't got merged it seems. git tree hasn't a block subdir. Also=20 rom-o-magic offers virtio-net only. And it doesn't solve the scsi=20 booting issue, right? cheers, Gerd