[Qemu-discuss] UEFI firmware variables

2015-06-16 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Using qemu with OVMF UEFI firmware results in a broken system since it appears to have no NVRAM storage to remember what OS to boot. Shouldn't there be a way to store NVRAM settings somewhere? Either in an external file provided to qemu, or in the E

[Qemu-discuss] qemu and lio virtio?

2014-05-20 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been reading up on lio / linux scsi target, and they claim to have a virtio fabric module that implements a virtio disk for the purpose of kvm-qemu. This makes no sense to me. My understanding of virtio is that qemu implements it in user space t

[Qemu-discuss] Simulating IO errors

2014-01-10 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a way to have qemu simulate disk IO errors? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJS0F+NAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwd7sH/0dYXsN9I0oYbaxYJW4eHBA0 2j57G