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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>

   Hi,

> 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.

Oh, having extboot + linuxboot + multiboot register a BEV (correct 
acronym?) entry instead of hijacking int19 would fix that too. 
Additional bonus will be that they are selectable in the boot menu.

cheers,
   Gerd