Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] qboot changes for PVH boot

2018-12-07 Thread Liam Merwick
On 06/12/2018 20:13, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 05/12/18 23:31, Liam Merwick wrote: For certain applications it is desirable to rapidly boot a KVM virtual machine. In cases where legacy hardware and software support within the guest is not needed, QEMU should be able to boot directly into the un

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] qboot changes for PVH boot

2018-12-06 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 05/12/18 23:31, Liam Merwick wrote: > For certain applications it is desirable to rapidly boot a KVM virtual > machine. In cases where legacy hardware and software support within the > guest is not needed, QEMU should be able to boot directly into the > uncompressed Linux kernel binary with mini

[Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] qboot changes for PVH boot

2018-12-05 Thread Liam Merwick
For certain applications it is desirable to rapidly boot a KVM virtual machine. In cases where legacy hardware and software support within the guest is not needed, QEMU should be able to boot directly into the uncompressed Linux kernel binary with minimal firmware involvement. There already exists