[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] Re: Need a way disable gPXE boot

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:11:20PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I noticed also with libguestfs that boot times have spiralled out of
> control again, and it seems to be down to the SeaBIOS change.  SeaBIOS
> accounts for _9_ seconds of the boot sequence, up from very small
> (fraction of a second) for the old Bochs BIOS[1].

I'm surprised - a significant amount of effort has gone into making
SeaBIOS boot quickly.  On my machine, the OS starts loading in well
under a second.

I'm not familiar with libguestfs - is that doing something to alter
the hardware emulation?

-Kevin