Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 10:14:51 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot OpenBSD with bhyve and libvirt automatically. Message-ID: <20150106181450.GP1949@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <54AC1114.4060609@freebsd.org> References: <20141231172913.6d6eb551@franky.ipa.blackhats.net.au> <54A3B0D7.6070600@freebsd.org> <20150102140353.52d54d53@franky.ipa.blackhats.net.au> <54AC1114.4060609@freebsd.org>
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Peter Grehan wrote this message on Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 08:45 -0800:
> > Perhaps this is a deficiency that should be addressed in the bootloader
> > compontent of libvirt to make this process a bit easier?
>
> I can't speak too much to libvirt since I didn't do that work, but
> grub-bhyve is really a workaround to boot non-FreeBSD o/s's until a
> UEFI/BIOS solution is done. If the changes to libvirt to support this
> are large, it's most likely not worth it.
Hmm... Nathan just did some work to make loader into a userland
program for calling Linux's kexec, could this work be leveraged?
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