[Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] option rom loadingoverhaul.

2009-12-22 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 12/22/2009 01:58 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote: Your cable TV provider does likely also control what beside the FW (if anything) runs on your set-top-box. So he can verify the FW upgrade doesn't break anything in the field. That pre-deployment verification is not possible in non closed environments.

[Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] option rom loadingoverhaul.

2009-12-21 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 12/21/2009 12:24 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: As stated before i don't like the idea of automagically upgrading the firmware on reset, e.g. after a live migration to a newer qemu version. You have explained that qemu-kvm needs this in order to work with live migration and changed hw

[Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] option rom loadingoverhaul.

2009-12-21 Thread Sebastian Herbszt
Anthony Liguori wrote: On 12/21/2009 12:24 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: As stated before i don't like the idea of automagically upgrading the firmware on reset, e.g. after a live migration to a newer qemu version. You have explained that qemu-kvm needs this in order to work with live migration

[Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] option rom loadingoverhaul.

2009-12-21 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:17:23PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: Does any OS (Windows?) depend on the tables the bios creates (e.g. smbios) for licensing? It would be ugly if Windows wants you to re-activate after a reboot following a migration to newer qemu version and therefore possibly

[Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] option rom loadingoverhaul.

2009-12-21 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 08:39:03PM +0100, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: On 12/21/2009 12:24 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: As stated before i don't like the idea of automagically upgrading the firmware on reset, e.g. after a live migration to a newer qemu version. You have

[Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] option rom loadingoverhaul.

2009-12-21 Thread Sebastian Herbszt
Gleb Natapov wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 08:39:03PM +0100, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: On 12/21/2009 12:24 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: As stated before i don't like the idea of automagically upgrading the firmware on reset, e.g. after a live migration to a newer qemu

[Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] option rom loadingoverhaul.

2009-12-21 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 09:16:17PM +0100, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: Gleb Natapov wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 08:39:03PM +0100, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: On 12/21/2009 12:24 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: As stated before i don't like the idea of automagically upgrading