[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] don't expose pvpanic device in the UI

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Aug 6 14:02:17 CEST 2013


  Hi,

>> My point was, there may be alternative, non-PV implementations to suck
>> such information out of a guest, IPMI being one example of a management
>> interface that exists for physical servers. So it's not necessarily
>> black-or-white, but choices similar to virtio vs. IDE vs. AHCI vs. SCSI.
>>
> pvpanic not meant to replace IPMI though.

You probably don't want use both though, and if you want to pick one of
the two you need a way to turn off pvpanic.

cheers,
  Gerd





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