[Qemu-devel] Brad Cambell's -no-reboot patch.

[Luke Crawford]

I have a client that has an existing systemimager infrastructure 
management system;  I am helping them virtualize their computer systems 
using Xen.  The version of systemimager they use uses a heavily modified 
2.4 linux kernel on a floppy to boot new computers.   I set them up with 
QEMU to do the same thing from the dom0 to install domUs.  (that is, they 
run qemu in the master (driver) domain, and it installs into the 
unprivileged domain, or the virtual server)   The problem is that once 
the install finishes, the system reboots;  the idea being that 
with the floppy, you boot and then take the floppy out, and the system 
reboots into the installed system.   With qemu, this just infinitely 
loops.  (I'm sure this could be fixed in systemimager, but frankly I am 
more comfortable playing with qemu than with systemimager.)

Anyhow, I did some googling, and found Brad Cambell's -no-reboot patch, 
and it solves the problem nicely.

http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg06327.html

the patch applies cleanly to the current stable qemu release, but it sure 
would be nice if it were included in the base qemu distribution;  most of 
my clients are a little uncomfortable compiling their own software, and 
patch is right out.

What needs to happen to get this patch committed?  I'd be willing to spend 
some time on it if required.