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

To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] efi-vfirmware.hg created
From: tgingold@xxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:49:34 +0100
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Quoting Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>:

> 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,
Thank you for testing.
I will try to debug FreeBSD first.  I don't really how to test Windows.

Tristan.

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