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Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable? |
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Thu, 10 May 2012 09:33:57 +0200 |
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Il 09/05/2012 18:10, Michael Tokarev ha scritto:
>
> The old hacks which were prematurely removed from qemu-kvm makes the
> life easier for the _user_, which is the main target of the software.
> I'd love to stop using them but sometimes it is not possible. With
> this extboot thing, qemu-kvm dropped ability to boot from SCSI for
> example, and it turns out there are quite some users of this interface
> exists - despite the fact SCSI is broken, there is a proprietary
> bootrom exists etc -- we just broke users setups without providing
> viable alternative, which, to my view, is unacceptable.
You were using a fork, and this implies some risks of things being
broken when upstream decides to do differently (e.g. extboot vs.
implementing boot support in SeaBIOS).
As far as I know, no feature was removed from upstream QEMU.
Paolo
- [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?, Michael Tokarev, 2012/05/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?, Gerd Hoffmann, 2012/05/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?, Michael Tokarev, 2012/05/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?, Gerd Hoffmann, 2012/05/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?, Michael Tokarev, 2012/05/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?, Gleb Natapov, 2012/05/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?, Michael Tokarev, 2012/05/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?,
Paolo Bonzini <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?, Gleb Natapov, 2012/05/10