[SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS causing Xen HVM VCPU Triple fault

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Thu Feb 6 12:31:06 CET 2014


  Hi,

> >> IIRC xen combines seabios and hvmloader into a single 256k image
> >> somehow, so it might make sense to set the seabios image size to
> >> something between 128k and 256k.  But better ask the xen people for
> >> details here.
> 
> A patch allowing the size to be other than a power of 2 was rejected.
> And I vaguely seem to recall that you actually participated in that?

seabios by default still picks the smallest possible power-of-two size.
If you need something else you can simply set the new CONFIG_ROM_SIZE
option to whatever you want, including non-power-of-two sizes.

cheers,
  Gerd





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