From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Jordan Justen <jljusten@gmail.com>, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Cc: "edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
<edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [edk2 PATCH] OvmfPkg: split the variable store to a separate file
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:54:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528FC481.6070706@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFe8ug-CcC-5m3Vjc_vQPsOren1ZpHVFsfKAoVZeA1z=5LmOfw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/22/2013 01:51 PM, Jordan Justen wrote:
> Tangentially related idea: if the user specifies -pflash to a
> non-existent file, then QEMU could copy 'pflash-$(arch).bin' from the
> roms folder into that file, and then the use it for the flash. It
> could make using a flash almost as easy as using the default bios.
But that image won't be auto-updated the next time the master is
updated. Besides, under sVirt protections of libvirt, libvirt would
have to pre-create the file (because libvirt intentionally denies qemu
the ability to create files), so libvirt would have to be aware of the
default. It's not much harder to make libvirt aware of handling a split
image, and a split image is easier to handle than having to copy the
default into a destination.
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-22 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-21 22:21 [Qemu-devel] [qemu PATCH] hw/i386/pc_sysfw: support more than one flash drive Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-21 22:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [edk2 PATCH] OvmfPkg: split the variable store to a separate file Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-22 9:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [edk2] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-11-22 11:46 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-22 11:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-11-22 12:12 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-22 17:37 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jordan Justen
2013-11-22 18:43 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-22 20:51 ` Jordan Justen
2013-11-22 20:54 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2013-11-22 21:18 ` Jordan Justen
2013-11-22 21:40 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-22 21:45 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-21 22:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [qemu PATCH] hw/i386/pc_sysfw: support more than one flash drive Eric Blake
2013-11-21 22:33 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-22 12:21 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-11-22 18:30 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-25 15:22 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-11-25 19:45 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-26 12:36 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-11-26 13:32 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-26 17:54 ` Jordan Justen
2013-11-27 13:52 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-11-27 14:01 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-27 14:45 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-11-27 15:18 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-27 17:22 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-11-27 17:34 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-27 20:35 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-11-26 13:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [edk2] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-11-26 13:53 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-26 14:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-11-26 12:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2013-11-26 13:27 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-27 13:49 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-11-27 14:01 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-25 15:32 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-11-25 20:17 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-26 13:11 ` Markus Armbruster
2013-11-26 13:39 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-11-26 15:35 ` Markus Armbruster
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