[LinuxBIOS] Fwd: hypervisor in flash

[ron minnich]

So, I wish we had already done this, but we've  been doing linux in
flash forever; anyone out there want to make a linux-kvm payload, boot
it, load windows, and show us that it's been done? It would be nice to
beat Dell to the punch :-)

I was actually going to do this as soon as I got a suitable mobo, but
v3 has been consuming all my linuxbios cycles.

thanks
ron

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: ron minnich 
Date: Aug 10, 2007 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: hypervisor in flash
To:

On 8/10/07, wrote:
> Neat hardware platform for linuxbios if true.
>
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070808-dell-virtualization-on-motherb...

[LinuxBIOS] hypervisor in flash : LB + legacy BIOS available ?

[Quux]

the idea is kinda thrilling ... it would allow to have legacy bios 
available beside LinuxBIOS ?

ron minnich wrote:
> flash forever; anyone out there want to make a linux-kvm payload, boot
> it, load windows, and show us that it's been done?
> > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070808-dell-virtualization-on-motherb...

[LinuxBIOS] hypervisor in flash : LB + legacy BIOS available ?

[ron minnich]

On 8/11/07, Quux  wrote:
> the idea is kinda thrilling ... it would allow to have legacy bios
> available beside LinuxBIOS ?

I doubt it, as the legacy would still be proprietary. It would let you
boot many OSes though.

ron

[LinuxBIOS] hypervisor in flash : LB + legacy BIOS available ?

[Stefan Reinauer]

* ron minnich  [070812 06:23]:
> On 8/11/07, Quux  wrote:
> > the idea is kinda thrilling ... it would allow to have legacy bios
> > available beside LinuxBIOS ?
>
> I doubt it, as the legacy would still be proprietary. It would let you
> boot many OSes though.

It would have to have a legacy bios for that, but at least XEN and Co
use the ADLO approach and use the Bochs/QEMU BIOS. :-)

VMware licensed a Phoenix BIOS for their virtualization.

Stefan