From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Dmitry Fleytman <dmitry@daynix.com>
Cc: Yan Vugenfirer <yan@daynix.com>, Libaiqing <libaiqing@huawei.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"nab@linux-iscsi.org" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
"asias@redhat.com" <asias@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/9] scsi: VMWare PVSCSI paravirtual device implementation
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:00:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C44051.1010409@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGHCxhe5BzxUVr=xc6Z4hd1ZWvByy-8vPB9qtKb5j1svc20WJQ@mail.gmail.com>
Il 21/06/2013 13:44, Dmitry Fleytman ha scritto:
> BTW,
>
> Can't we add to QEMU some simplified interface (device) for boot time only,
> so that system will be able to boot without SeaBIOS support for specific
> device?
We had it, and we dropped it. :)
Writing a SeaBIOS driver is very easy, and the biggest limitation of
pvscsi is that it doesn't support the VMware option ROM. There is a
simple interface using only I/O BARs, or so I was told, exactly for the
purpose of booting---but we do not implement that interface. I'm not
sure how hard it would be to reverse engineere it, I do not have access
to vSphere.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-21 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-19 14:24 [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/9] SCSI updates for 2013-04-13 Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-19 14:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/9] scsi: avoid assertion failure on VERIFY command Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-19 14:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/9] scsi: VMWare PVSCSI paravirtual device implementation Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-21 3:47 ` Libaiqing
2013-06-21 7:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-21 11:44 ` Dmitry Fleytman
2013-06-21 12:00 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-04-19 14:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/9] vhost: Add vhost_commit callback for SeaBIOS ROM region re-mapping Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-19 14:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/9] virtio-scsi: create VirtIOSCSICommon Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-19 14:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/9] virtio: simplify Makefile conditionals Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-19 14:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/9] vhost-scsi: new device supporting the tcm_vhost Linux kernel module Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-28 7:13 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-05-28 8:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-28 8:33 ` Asias He
2013-05-28 9:00 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-05-29 9:05 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-05-29 9:27 ` Asias He
2013-05-29 15:10 ` Badari Pulavarty
2013-05-29 22:17 ` Asias He
2013-05-30 4:29 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2013-05-30 5:36 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2013-05-30 18:00 ` Badari Pulavarty
2013-06-06 22:53 ` [Qemu-devel] vhost-scsi and pscsi Badari
2013-05-30 2:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/9] vhost-scsi: new device supporting the tcm_vhost Linux kernel module Wenchao Xia
2013-06-19 12:55 ` Libaiqing
2013-06-20 1:33 ` Asias He
2013-06-20 3:22 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-06-20 8:49 ` Libaiqing
2013-06-20 9:38 ` Asias He
2013-06-21 10:16 ` Libaiqing
2013-07-03 3:08 ` Libaiqing
2013-07-03 3:18 ` Asias He
2013-07-03 3:23 ` Asias He
2013-07-03 8:08 ` Asias He
2013-07-03 12:33 ` Libaiqing
2013-07-04 11:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-08 0:59 ` Libaiqing
2013-07-04 7:00 ` Libaiqing
2013-07-05 0:00 ` Asias He
2013-07-05 6:52 ` Asias He
2013-07-05 11:17 ` Vadim Rozenfeld
2013-07-10 1:50 ` Asias He
2013-04-19 14:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/9] vhost-scsi-pci: " Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-19 14:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/9] vhost-scsi-ccw: " Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-19 14:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 9/9] vhost-scsi-s390: " Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-23 23:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/9] SCSI updates for 2013-04-13 Nicholas A. Bellinger
2013-04-24 5:59 ` [Qemu-devel] seabios for qemu 1.5 Gerd Hoffmann
2013-04-24 6:11 ` Amos Kong
2013-05-16 4:46 ` Amos Kong
2013-05-27 6:17 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-04-30 16:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-24 4:56 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/9] SCSI updates for 2013-04-13 Stefan Weil
2013-04-24 8:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-24 16:56 ` Stefan Weil
2013-04-26 8:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-17 21:18 ` Anthony Liguori
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