Re: [Xen-devel] PATCH 0/3: Direct linux kernel boot for HVM

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/12/07 13:00, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It is the latter - just to allow boot from external kernl/initrd/params.
> This is basically making
> 
>    qemu-dm -kernel /path/to/vmlinux -initrd /path/initrd -append 'someargs'
> 
> work in Xen the same way it works in current upstream QEMU.
> 
> Currently this hooks in QEMU's boot by writing a fake MBR into the first
> harddisk. Once anthony's option ROM patch is accepted upstream they could
> be leveraged to get rid of the MBR hook (indeed anthony's patches include
> this optimization). This is only a very minor part of the code though, so
> the bulk of this patch would still remain.

The patches look fine to me in principle, especially if a lot of the code is
in upstream qemu anyway. I'll do a deeper dive after 3.2.0.

 -- Keir



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