On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 05:18:57PM +0800, Wayne Xia wrote: > Hi, > these 3 patch simply enable qemu-kvm to show a logo picture when it > s start up, following is how to configurate it: > invoke it with params: > -boot (splash_time=<N>,) (splash_filename=<N>,) > the splash_time is in the unit of ms, and its max value is 65535. > this feature is by default on with 5000ms showing up. > Patch 1 contains the source modification for qemu-kvm, Patch 2 and > 3 are binary patches that added a default logo picture file, alternated > the bios.bin to make the sea-bios showing it. Patch 3 is just used to > provide a convenient way to test the Patch, waiting for newer version > of seabios that provide the support officially. > Any comments would be very nice.
Splash screens are a terrible idea. We should work instead on making the boot even faster. And having it *default* to 5 seconds! That's like, nearly double the time it takes to launch libguestfs completely!! Please don't accept these patches. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/