On 08/04/2010 08:31 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
Even better yet, why not use virtio-9p and expose all of fw_cfg as files? Then implement a simple virtio-9p client in SeaBIOS and maybe even get direct kernel/initrd boot from a real 9p system ;).
libguestfs could use 9pfs directly. That will be way faster and reduce the footprint dramatically (the guest will demand load only the pages it needs).
-- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.
