[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] s390: IPL device for s390

2012-05-04 Thread Christian Borntraeger
An IPL (booting) on s390 of SCSI disks is done by a firmware component. Lets implement this scheme as an qemu device that also allows to configure the IPL like the HMC. We have a parameter iplid that refers to a disk device and a load parm that specifies the entry on the disk to be ipled. We also p

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] s390: IPL device for s390

2012-05-04 Thread Alexander Graf
On 04.05.2012, at 15:44, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > An IPL (booting) on s390 of SCSI disks is done by a firmware component. > Lets implement this scheme as an qemu device that also allows to > configure the IPL like the HMC. We have a parameter iplid that > refers to a disk device and a load

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] s390: IPL device for s390

2012-05-04 Thread Christian Borntraeger
On 04/05/12 15:53, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 04.05.2012, at 15:44, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > >> An IPL (booting) on s390 of SCSI disks is done by a firmware component. >> Lets implement this scheme as an qemu device that also allows to >> configure the IPL like the HMC. We have a paramete

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] s390: IPL device for s390

2012-05-04 Thread Christian Borntraeger
On 04/05/12 16:00, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>> An IPL (booting) on s390 of SCSI disks is done by a firmware component. >>> Lets implement this scheme as an qemu device that also allows to >>> configure the IPL like the HMC. We have a parameter iplid that >>> refers to a disk device and a load

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] s390: IPL device for s390

2012-05-04 Thread Alexander Graf
On 04.05.2012, at 16:02, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > On 04/05/12 16:00, Christian Borntraeger wrote: An IPL (booting) on s390 of SCSI disks is done by a firmware component. Lets implement this scheme as an qemu device that also allows to configure the IPL like the HMC. We have a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] s390: IPL device for s390

2012-05-08 Thread Christian Borntraeger
On 04/05/12 20:12, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 04.05.2012, at 16:02, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > >> On 04/05/12 16:00, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > An IPL (booting) on s390 of SCSI disks is done by a firmware component. > Lets implement this scheme as an qemu device that also allows

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] s390: IPL device for s390

2012-05-08 Thread Alexander Graf
On 08.05.2012, at 14:32, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > On 04/05/12 20:12, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> On 04.05.2012, at 16:02, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >> >>> On 04/05/12 16:00, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >> An IPL (booting) on s390 of SCSI disks is done by a firmware component.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] s390: IPL device for s390

2012-05-08 Thread Christian Borntraeger
>> Anthony, this is the prototype of the IPL device that we have talked about >> some weeks >> ago. Is an external device to do the IPL process for s390 still ok with you? > > Even with an external IPL, we should still be able to detect that a guest > provides > its own virtio-zipl code that co

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] s390: IPL device for s390

2012-05-08 Thread Alexander Graf
On 08.05.2012, at 16:43, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>> Anthony, this is the prototype of the IPL device that we have talked about >>> some weeks >>> ago. Is an external device to do the IPL process for s390 still ok with you? >> >> Even with an external IPL, we should still be able to detect

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] s390: IPL device for s390

2012-05-08 Thread Christian Borntraeger
> Well, the only shortcomings I'm aware of of the external IPL are: > > * You lose the boot menu. All you get is "entry 0", "entry 1", etc. as the > description is not part of the boot map > * You can't choose different entries during runtime. Doing a reboot of a VM > and selecting a differe

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] s390: IPL device for s390

2012-05-08 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 05/08/2012 07:32 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote: On 04/05/12 20:12, Alexander Graf wrote: On 04.05.2012, at 16:02, Christian Borntraeger wrote: On 04/05/12 16:00, Christian Borntraeger wrote: An IPL (booting) on s390 of SCSI disks is done by a firmware component. Lets implement this sche

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] s390: IPL device for s390

2012-05-08 Thread Alexander Graf
On 08.05.2012, at 20:54, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >> Well, the only shortcomings I'm aware of of the external IPL are: >> >> * You lose the boot menu. All you get is "entry 0", "entry 1", etc. as the >> description is not part of the boot map >> * You can't choose different entries during