From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: marc.mari.barcelo@gmail.com, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel?
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 10:51:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56FE3693.2070503@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160401084747.GG32728@redhat.com>
On 01/04/2016 10:47, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> It's so we can handle error reports. When someone reports that
> libguestfs "hangs", it's sometimes useful to know if the BIOS was
> entered or not, since it points the finger at either qemu, BIOS or
> kernel. (Remember we have to be able to run on a whole variety of
> Linux distros which often have old/broken/random qemu/bios/kernel).
Sure, but that can be an extra option if sgabios adds overhead.
Anyhow, you probably want "-vga none" too.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-01 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-19 20:31 [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel? Richard W.M. Jones
2016-03-21 7:58 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-03-21 8:37 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-03-21 9:40 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-03-31 9:21 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-03-31 16:22 ` Kevin O'Connor
[not found] ` <20160331221039.GA32728@redhat.com>
2016-03-31 22:17 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-03-31 22:44 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-01 7:55 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 8:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 8:47 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 8:51 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2016-04-01 8:57 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 9:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 8:02 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 8:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 8:14 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 8:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 8:44 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 8:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 8:49 ` Vasiliy Tolstov
2016-04-01 9:16 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-04-01 9:18 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-04-01 10:17 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 11:07 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-04-01 11:11 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 11:20 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 11:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 11:26 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-05 4:38 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-04-05 8:04 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-05 8:11 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-04-05 9:19 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-05 9:26 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-04-01 11:32 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-04-01 11:49 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 15:35 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-01 16:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 18:41 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 18:59 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 19:04 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-01 19:10 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 19:15 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 19:44 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-01 20:25 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 20:05 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-01 20:46 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 22:25 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-02 7:51 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-02 5:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-01 15:08 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-01 14:58 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-01 15:06 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2016-04-01 15:14 ` Kevin O'Connor
2016-04-01 8:19 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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