On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 10:11:46AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 01/04/2016 10:02, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> > echo -e > >> > 'CONFIG_USB=n\nCONFIG_DRIVES=n\nCONFIG_KEYBOARD=n\nCONFIG_MOUSE=n\nCONFIG_WRITABLE_UPPERMEMORY=y\nCONFIG_TCGBIOS=n\nCONFIG_PIRTABLE=n\nCONFIG_MPTABLE=n\nCONFIG_SMBIOS=n\nCONFIG_ACPI=n\nCONFIG_DEBUG_LEVEL=0' > >> > > .config > >> > make olddefconfig > >> > make > >> > > >> > What time do you get with the above stripped down seabios (the > >> > generated bios is in out/bios.bin)? > > It's a bit unexpected: The kernel (not SeaBIOS) crashes or hangs > > during virtio-scsi sensing. See attached. Any idea what I need to > > enable? > > At least ACPI (I would also add mptable and SMBIOS).
Found it: only CONFIG_MPTABLE=y was necessary. It boots with: # CONFIG_PIRTABLE is not set CONFIG_MPTABLE=y # CONFIG_SMBIOS is not set # CONFIG_ACPI is not set Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html