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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] efi-vfirmware.hg created

To: Tristan Gingold <tgingold@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] efi-vfirmware.hg created
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:27:20 -0700
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On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 05:41 +0100, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You can now get an open-source guest firmware for VTi from
>  http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/efi-vfirmware.hg
> 
> The sources are there as well as a pre-built image.
> 
> This EFI firmware can run linux in SMP and remove/add vcpus.
> 
> FreeBSD is known *not* to work.

  Nice, this is very functional.  I haven't found any problems running
Linux guests on the pre-built firmware image.  Windows wasn't able to
boot though :(  Thanks Tristan,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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