add sgabios, for serial bios

the 'serial graphics adapter' bios optionrom can direct early
pre-bootloader bios messages (like ipxe output, boot menu, etc) to
serial.

diff --git a/README b/README
index 7795752b226d8f6bc5cb8ad893d44af4a6f7d975..45285508767aed35e5498362006af2f3856064b8 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Dependencies:
  fakeroot : for rebuilding the initramfs as a regular user in di-maker
  xorriso : for grub2 to make an iso in di-maker
  genisoimage : for di-maker to work with an existing iso
+ sgabios : for early pre-bootloader (like ipxe) output
 
 Recommendations:
 
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ INSTALLATION
 
  * Install dependencies:
 
-   apt-get install runit kvm screen bridge-utils lvm2 udev socat
+   apt-get install runit kvm screen bridge-utils lvm2 udev socat sgabios
 
    If you want to be able to use di-maker, you'll also need:
 

diff --git a/kvm-manager b/kvm-manager
index 2f4ecbae2175b1fe01298ed881caf1f254b84d40..91c8cb7221c3e56529a259fc688f633cafd97a4b 100755 (executable)
--- a/kvm-manager
+++ b/kvm-manager
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ EOF
         -usb \
         -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0 \
         -chardev "socket,id=serial0,path=$CONSOLENAME,server" -device isa-serial,chardev=serial0 \
+       -device sga \
         -smp "${SMP:-1},maxcpus=${MAXCPUS:-8}" \
         -device "virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=$MAC,bus=pci.0" \
         -net "tap,ifname=$TAP,script=no,downscript=no,vlan=0,name=hostnet0" &