Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 à 11:17 +0200, Soren Hansen a écrit : > 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
yes, in fact "media=cdrom,boot=on" is not equal to "-cdrom ... -boot d". "boot=on" means "use bios extension extboot with this drive", and using extboot allows the bios to manage this device and to boot from it. Laurent -- --------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- "L'avenir ne se prévoit pas, il se prépare." - Maurice Blondel -- 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
