Excerpts from Michael Tokarev's message of Thu May 05 14:57:04 +0200 2011: > A small followup. While no released version of > qemu-kvm can flawlessly boot from a (emulated) > usb drive directly (using -boot menu or automatic > boot) -- this is because seabios as currently > available in Debian (even -testing) does not > have necessary support -- even 0.12 version in > squeeze can boot from usb device using external > boot rom method (extboot), like this: > > kvm -usb \ > -drive file=filename,if=none,id=b,boot=on \ > -device usb-storage,drive=b > > (the key point is boot=on subparameter) > > But either way, booting from a usb1.1 device > takes ages - base debian squeeze with only > minimal set of software (login prompt and ssh > with network support, no X) takes ~5 minutes > to boot this way.
Booting this way from an Ubuntu USB install media is also very slow but at least I can confirm the media is bootable. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
