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

  On 08/04/2010 07:44 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> The option rom stuff has a number of short comings.  Because we hijack 
> int19, extboot doesn't get to run.  That means that if you use -kernel 
> to load a grub (the Ubuntu guys for their own absurd reasons) then 
> grub does not see extboot backed disks.  The solution for them is the 
> same, generate a proper disk and boot from that disk.
>

Let's print it out and hand out leaflets at the upcoming kvm forum.

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