[SeaBIOS] [PATCH v2] pvscsi boot support
Evgeny Budilovsky
evgeny.budilovsky at ravellosystems.com
Thu Oct 10 09:48:19 CEST 2013
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 01:16:30PM +0300, Evgeny Budilovsky wrote:
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Evgeny Budilovsky <evgeny.budilovsky at ravellosystems.com>
>
> Thanks for submitting.
>
> I'm fine with the patch. But can you expand on what "pvscsi" is, what
> advantages there is for an user to enable it, what hypervisors support
> it, etc. Ideally this info would be in the Kconfig menu as well.
>
Hi,
I was thinking about writing similar to this in the Kconfig help item. What
do you think ?
If this is ok I will resend the patch
config PVSCSI
depends on DRIVES && QEMU_HARDWARE
bool "pvscsi controllers"
default y
help
Support boot from Paravirtualized SCSI storage. This kind of
storage
is mainly supported by VMware ESX hypervisor. It is commonly
used
to allow fast storage access by communicating directly with the
underlying hypervisor. Enabling this type of boot will allow
booting directly from images that were imported from ESX
platform,
without the need to use slower emulation of storage controllers
such as IDE.
> -Kevin
>
--
Best Regards,
Evgeny
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