On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:17:24AM +0200, Soren Hansen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:37:30AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > The following two command lines should be identical from the user's > > point of view: > > > > # qemu-kvm -cdrom /home/berrange/boot.iso -boot d -m 500 > > > > # qemu-kvm -drive > > file=/home/berrange/boot.iso,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2,boot=on -m 500 > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1977971&group_id=180599&atid=893831
Ok, so basically this is saying that boot=on only works for media=disk. I really don't like the fact that we now have 2 different ways of flagging bootable disks, depending on whether want to use BIOS boot or extboot. The management apps shouldn't have to make such a decision - QEMU should be picking the most appropriate choice for us. ie, if we have boot=on with an IDE cdrom, then QEMU should automatically do a BIOS boot instead of extboot. This way if extboot gets improved, QEMU can update its logic to correspond without needing to change all the management apps using QEMU. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
