On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 03:21:45PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2012-01-15 14:39, Avi Kivity wrote: > > On 01/15/2012 03:27 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >> On 15.01.2012 17:18, Avi Kivity wrote: > >>> On 01/15/2012 03:10 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >> [] > >>>> FWIW, I had to patch extboot back in for debian qemu-kvm 1.0, because > >>>> of lack of boot support from scsi (and no alternative), and because > >>>> many people's scripts who used boot= broke. I thought it is better > >>>> to let users to have a chance to perform a smoother transition than > >>>> to break their stuff. > >>> > >>> It's really sad that people have to use lsi scsi. Luckily qemu 1.1 will > >>> feature virtio-scsi, though of course that doesn't help already > >>> installed guests or non Windows/Linux guests. Do you know what the use > >>> cases requiring scsi boot are? > >> > >> I've one (not very pleasant) bugreport handy, http://bugs.debian.org/652447 > >> and a few private messages asking me for ways to restore booting from scsi, > >> all talking about older/custom systems which worked for years in kvm. > >> As you can see in the bugreport mentioned, I know that scsi is broken > >> and should not be used and so on, and suggested switching from it on > >> every chance. > > > > Well we don't want to break people's guests. If the fix Gleb alluded to > > doesn't work, we'll have to restore extboot or something similar. Let > > us know. > > I would vote for proper seabios support or a free option rom. That would > allow us to make progress with obsoleting qemu-kvm instead of making a > step back again. > It is not enough to vote, somebody has to send patches :) And it seams there are two kind of people: those who can make such a patch, but don't because they know enough to avoid qemu lsi emulation and those who can't make it and use lsi qemu emulation. -- Gleb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
