Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 à 10:21 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange a écrit : > 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.
I agree. 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
