* breaking kvm :-)
@ 2007-06-30 21:43 ron minnich
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From: ron minnich @ 2007-06-30 21:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kvm-devel
Somebody here at OLS was asking me about linuxbios on kvm. Well, that
was too much to resist.
Short form: it works, uses a grub-like interface that does not use
BIOS callbacks. It's noticeably faster to boot than Bochs. I realize
that it's all pretty fast but linuxbios is 32-bit code, so there is
pretty much no emulation to worry about.
So, if anyone gets annoyed watching bochs boot, I can put a howto on
the linuxbios wiki. It's pretty trivial to set up.
ron
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* Re: breaking kvm :-)
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@ 2007-07-01 5:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-07-02 10:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-09-14 19:23 ` Cam Macdonell
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From: Anthony Liguori @ 2007-07-01 5:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ron minnich; +Cc: kvm-devel
ron minnich wrote:
> Somebody here at OLS was asking me about linuxbios on kvm. Well, that
> was too much to resist.
>
> Short form: it works, uses a grub-like interface that does not use
> BIOS callbacks. It's noticeably faster to boot than Bochs. I realize
> that it's all pretty fast but linuxbios is 32-bit code, so there is
> pretty much no emulation to worry about.
>
> So, if anyone gets annoyed watching bochs boot, I can put a howto on
> the linuxbios wiki. It's pretty trivial to set up.
>
Please do, I'd like to try it out.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> ron
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* Re: breaking kvm :-)
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2007-07-01 5:29 ` Anthony Liguori
@ 2007-07-02 10:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
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2007-09-14 19:23 ` Cam Macdonell
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From: Arnd Bergmann @ 2007-07-02 10:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f
On Saturday 30 June 2007, ron minnich wrote:
> Somebody here at OLS was asking me about linuxbios on kvm. Well, that
> was too much to resist.
>
> Short form: it works, uses a grub-like interface that does not use
> BIOS callbacks. It's noticeably faster to boot than Bochs. I realize
> that it's all pretty fast but linuxbios is 32-bit code, so there is
> pretty much no emulation to worry about.
Very nice. I'm curious though since I've never used Linuxbios before:
what operating systems can it load? Only Linux, anything that comes
as an ELF image, or even proprietary operating systems?
Arnd <><
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* Re: breaking kvm :-)
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@ 2007-07-02 15:50 ` ron minnich
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From: ron minnich @ 2007-07-02 15:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Arnd Bergmann; +Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f
On 7/2/07, Arnd Bergmann <arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Very nice. I'm curious though since I've never used Linuxbios before:
> what operating systems can it load? Only Linux, anything that comes
> as an ELF image, or even proprietary operating systems?
pretty soon, anything grub can load. For now, ELF arbitrary elf images.
ron
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* Re: breaking kvm :-)
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2007-07-01 5:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-07-02 10:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
@ 2007-09-14 19:23 ` Cam Macdonell
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From: Cam Macdonell @ 2007-09-14 19:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ron minnich; +Cc: kvm-devel
Hi Ron,
This would be interesting to try, especially if booting is noticeably
faster that bochs.
Did you get that how-to up?
Thanks,
Cam
ron minnich wrote:
> Somebody here at OLS was asking me about linuxbios on kvm. Well, that
> was too much to resist.
>
> Short form: it works, uses a grub-like interface that does not use
> BIOS callbacks. It's noticeably faster to boot than Bochs. I realize
> that it's all pretty fast but linuxbios is 32-bit code, so there is
> pretty much no emulation to worry about.
>
> So, if anyone gets annoyed watching bochs boot, I can put a howto on
> the linuxbios wiki. It's pretty trivial to set up.
>
> ron
>
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* Re: breaking kvm :-)
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@ 2007-09-14 19:31 ` Jorge Lucángeli Obes
2007-09-15 15:27 ` ron minnich
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From: Jorge Lucángeli Obes @ 2007-09-14 19:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ron minnich; +Cc: kvm-devel
On 9/14/07, Cam Macdonell <cam-edFDblaTWIyXbbII50Afww@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Ron,
>
> This would be interesting to try, especially if booting is noticeably
> faster that bochs.
It would definitely be interesting to try.
Cheers,
Jorge
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* Re: breaking kvm :-)
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@ 2007-09-15 15:27 ` ron minnich
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From: ron minnich @ 2007-09-15 15:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Cam Macdonell; +Cc: kvm-devel
Ah, I need to get that how-to up, only Anthony tried it and he never
seems to need a HOWTO :-)
thanks, I am glad you are interested, I will test it again and
probably put a HOWTO up at linuxbios.org, which could be cloned at the
kvm web site.
ron
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