Re: [Xen-devel] Slow HVM boot time, was "HVM boot time optimization"

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 08:31:40AM -0800, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> CC'ing xen-devel and a few relevant people
> 
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, Yessine Daoud wrote:
> > Dear Sir,
> > I need your help please.
> > 
> > I am using a direct kernel boot (HVM guest) with kernel + ramdisk.
> > At boot, seabios is bloqued about 20 seconds (or more) at the following 
> > state:
> > 

The manual seems a bit confusing to me but maybe I misremember how it
works. My understanding is direct kernel boot jumps straight to kernel
entry point without going through firmware.

If this is direct kernel boot why is seabios involved?

Wei.

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