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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: PC machine types switched to SeaBIOS/gPXE
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, eak@linux.vnet.ibm.com

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just wanted to let everyone know that I've switched the PC machine
>> type to SeaBIOS and gPXE.  SeaBIOS is a port of the Bochs BIOS to GCC,
>> by Kevin O'Conner, along with quite a lot of clean up and new feature work.
>>
>> gPXE is the new development tree of etherboot which is now deprecated. 
>> We've done a lot of testing of and while there are a few outstanding
>> issues, almost everything seems to be working okay.
>>
>> Some known issues:
>> o e1000 pxe booting doesn't seem to work
>> o gPXE does not like the slirp tftp server
>>     
>
> Can't confirm, works nicely here with default settings (e1000).
>   

Interesting.  I'll have to look again.

> Jan
>   


-- 
Regards,

Anthony Liguori