From: "Ed Swierk" <eswierk@arastra.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] don't require a disk image for network boot
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:45:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1bf1cf0702150745u12a3a942g7b9e859c1836cc7a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070215101744.6a639186@thomas.toulouse>
On 2/15/07, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@enix.org> wrote:
> BTW, is there a reason why a disk image is required when using the
> -kernel option ?
>
> In the following case: -kernel vmlinuz -append "nfsroot=blabla", we
> could boot over the network, without the need for any disk image, but
> Qemu wants to have a disk image. Is it mandatory ?
On Linux, -hda /dev/zero works fine, so I'd say there's no reason a
disk image is necessary.
--Ed
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-15 15:45 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <87bqjyxg10.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu>
2007-02-13 14:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] don't require a disk image for network boot andrzej zaborowski
2007-02-13 15:08 ` Stuart Brady
2007-02-15 9:17 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2007-02-15 15:45 ` Ed Swierk [this message]
2007-02-15 16:27 ` Paul Brook
2007-02-17 0:57 ` Rob Landley
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