From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MgDyz-0006wV-Ut for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:35:53 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MgDyu-0006uX-1A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:35:52 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37864 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MgDyt-0006uU-TK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:35:47 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.188]:59331) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MgDyt-0007e1-83 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:35:47 -0400 Message-Id: <5661696.94001251275728200.JavaMail.servlet@kundenserver> From: Laurent Vivier Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] proposal : use gpxe roms in upstream qemu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:35:28 +0200 List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: glommer@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org >Hi people, > >For a while now, we are using gpxe instead of etherboot in fedora's qemu, = with=20 >strong success. >etherboot is currently deprecated, and gpxe offers a lot of interesting=20 >features, like iscsi >initiator support, besides being actively maintained. I even think with so= me=20 >effort we may be >able to get rid of extboot by using gpxe infrastructure to initiate virtio= =20 >disks. To boot from a virtio-disk with gPXE you can use my (old) patches: http://markmail.org/message/qxqvcrzqitpzrsnb This series of patches adds block device boot support. The goal is to use gPXE to boot from a virtio-blk device. This series has been modified to work with Bochs BIOS with/without BCV or P= nP support. [PATCH 1/4] Move romprefix generic part from arch/i386/prefix/romprefix.S t= o arch/i386/prefix/libromprefix.S=20 [PATCH 2/4] Add block device boot support=20 [PATCH 3/4] Add virtio-blk driver=20 [PATCH 4/4] cdrom boot support=20 Regards, Laurent --=20 --------------------- Laurent@vivier.eu --------------------- "Tout ce qui est impossible reste =C3=A0 accomplir" Jules Verne "Things are only impossible until they're not" Jean-Luc Picard