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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

  On 08/04/2010 05:39 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
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> We could make kernel an awful lot smarter but unless we've got someone 
> just itching to write 16-bit option rom code, I think our best bet is 
> to try to leverage a standard bootloader and expose a disk containing 
> the kernel/initrd.
>

A problem with that is that the booted kernel would see that disk and 
try to do something with it.


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