Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-09 Thread Natalia Portillo
Hi, El 09/03/2011, a las 18:44, Jordan Justen escribió: > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 05:43, Natalia Portillo wrote: >> This may come late in the discussion, but, has OVMF been tested with Mac OS >> X? > > No. > > I don't think Apple considers VMs an acceptable usage environment for > OS X. Please

Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-09 Thread Jordan Justen
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 05:43, Natalia Portillo wrote: > This may come late in the discussion, but, has OVMF been tested with Mac OS X? No. I don't think Apple considers VMs an acceptable usage environment for OS X. Please correct me if I am mistaken. Thanks, -Jordan

Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-09 Thread Jordan Justen
2011/3/9 Gleb Natapov : > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:13:38AM -0800, Jordan Justen wrote: >> Regarding UEFI non-volatile variables on real HW: >> Most systems today have at least 1MB of flash storage located just >> below 4GB.  The entire contents can be modified, which is how firmware >> updates ha

Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-09 Thread Natalia Portillo
Hi all, This may come late in the discussion, but, has OVMF been tested with Mac OS X? A decent Intel Macintosh emulation requires of course EFI + HFS. Regards, Natalia Portillo El 09/03/2011, a las 05:34, Jordan Justen escribió: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 18:23, Kevin O'Connor wrote: >> On Tue

Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-09 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:13:38AM -0800, Jordan Justen wrote: > 2011/3/8 Gleb Natapov : > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 07:18:09AM +, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > >> > Regarding the non-volatile variables issue, I have been trying to > >> > develop a proposal for addressing this with a change to QEMU'

Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-08 Thread Jordan Justen
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 18:23, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:00:05AM -0800, Jordan Justen wrote: >> Yes, the UEFI system is still in place.  The UEFI part still handles >> the majority of platform init, and calls into the CSM at various >> points.  The CSM returns back to UEFI

Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-08 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:00:05AM -0800, Jordan Justen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 23:18, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Jordan Justen wrote: > >> The biggest issue that you guys care about for OVMF is a lack of > >> legacy bios compatibility (CSM).  There has be

Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-08 Thread Jordan Justen
2011/3/8 Gleb Natapov : > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 07:18:09AM +, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> > Regarding the non-volatile variables issue, I have been trying to >> > develop a proposal for addressing this with a change to QEMU's >> > hardware support of bios.bin.  But, I don't have the suggestion

Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-08 Thread Jordan Justen
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 23:18, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Jordan Justen wrote: >> The biggest issue that you guys care about for OVMF is a lack of >> legacy bios compatibility (CSM).  There has been no progress in this >> area.  (However, it has now been suggested by

Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-08 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 07:18:09AM +, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > Regarding the non-volatile variables issue, I have been trying to > > develop a proposal for addressing this with a change to QEMU's > > hardware support of bios.bin.  But, I don't have the suggestion (or > > implementation) ready

Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-07 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Jordan Justen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 01:48, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> Jordan, UEFI guest firmware comes up periodically.  It seems to be a >> feature that will be required in the future but as of today I don't >> know of QEMU developers who are working on

Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-07 Thread Jordan Justen
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 01:48, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > Jordan, UEFI guest firmware comes up periodically.  It seems to be a > feature that will be required in the future but as of today I don't > know of QEMU developers who are working on or using it. > > Maybe you can start by giving an update on

Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-07 Thread Peter Maydell
On 6 March 2011 15:29, Michal Suchanek wrote: > I would like to see the ability to run x86 on arm. > > I think there were some attempts to implement this and an outdated? > support for arm on x86 exists but x86 cannot be emulated on arm so > far. ARM on x86 isn't outdated; it has bugs (what code

Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-07 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Jordan Justen wrote: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 07:29, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> On 6 March 2011 05:12, Jordan Justen wrote: >>> I know you already have your own ideas to think of. :) >>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011 >>> >>> But, I am wondering if

Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-06 Thread Jordan Justen
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 07:29, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 6 March 2011 05:12, Jordan Justen wrote: >> I know you already have your own ideas to think of. :) >> http://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011 >> >> But, I am wondering if any of you might have some UEFI or OVMF ideas for us: >> htt

Re: [Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-06 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello On 6 March 2011 05:12, Jordan Justen wrote: > I know you already have your own ideas to think of. :) > http://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011 > > But, I am wondering if any of you might have some UEFI or OVMF ideas for us: > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php

[Qemu-devel] OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-05 Thread Jordan Justen
I know you already have your own ideas to think of. :) http://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011 But, I am wondering if any of you might have some UEFI or OVMF ideas for us: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?title=GSOC2011 Thanks, -Jordan