On 12/10/18 2:05 PM, Maran Wilson wrote: > For certain applications it is desirable to rapidly boot a KVM virtual > machine. In cases where legacy hardware and software support within the > guest is not needed, Qemu should be able to boot directly into the > uncompressed Linux kernel binary without the need to run firmware. > > There already exists an ABI to allow this for Xen PVH guests and the ABI > is supported by Linux and FreeBSD: > > https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/pvh.html > > This patch series would enable Qemu to use that same entry point for > booting KVM guests. > Applied to for-linus-4.21 -boris