2010/12/8 Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com>: > 2010/12/8 अनुज <anu...@gmail.com>: >> Hi >> >> thanks for your quick response. Please see the comments inline. >> >> 2010/12/8 Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com>: >>> 2010/12/8 अनुज <anu...@gmail.com>: >>>> Hi list >>>> >>>> I got confused after observing that there is no support for VirtIO >>>> block devices in Seabios supplied with Qemu-0.12.3. But still it can >>>> accept a VirtIO disk as a bootable device and perfectly boots from it. >>>> Then How it's done? >>>> >>>> But I can see the VirtIO block device code in Seabios source supplied >>>> with Qemu-0.13.0. >>> >>> Before SeaBIOS had native support for virtio-blk there was the extboot >>> option ROM which could boot from virtio-blk devices by reading a >>> special I/O port (it does not speak virtio-blk, see qemu-kvm.git >>> hw/extboot.c). >> >> I couldn't find this file in qemu versions 0.12.3 and 0.13.0. And my >> same doubt is also for SCSI disks. > > Please keep qemu-devel@nongnu.org CCed so others can follow the > conversation and help too. > > You probably looked at QEMU source code (from qemu.git). The extboot > code is in qemu-kvm.git (which is shipped as the "kvm" or "qemu-kvm" > package on distros).
Yes I was looking in qemu.git-based code by mistake. I found files in qemu-kvm.git-based code. > Are you sure you tested virtio-blk boot in qemu.git-based code? No I have tested that boot only using qemu-kvm.git-based code. > > Stefan > Thanks for your help. Regards -- Anuj Aggarwal .''`. : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install hakuna-matata `. `'` `-
