On 23.02.2018 12:50, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote: > On 23.02.2018 11:17, Thomas Huth wrote: >> On 23.02.2018 09:53, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>> Hmmm, on my ubuntu 16.04 guest, I get the boot menu with no timeout even if >>> I do not >>> specify loadparm or boot menu: >>> >>> qemu-kvm -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/image.zhyp140,if=none,id=d1 >>> -device virtio-blk-ccw,drive=d1,bootindex=1 >> >> I can reproduce this now, too. FWIW: It only happens with >> virtio-blk-ccw, not with virtio-scsi-ccw (that's why I did not notice it >> first). Collin, can you reproduce this, too? >> >> Thomas >> The idea is to support the zipl boot menu on ECKD disks (which have a >> timeout by themselves) > even without switching the boot menu on. This is to have the same behavior as > one would see > on LPAR or z/VM. > The issue is that the boot code tries to interpret the program table of SCSI > bootmaps as if > a boot menu has been specified.
Ok, thanks for the explanation, makes sense now. Collin, could you please spin a v9 with the required changes included? Thanks, Thomas