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[Qemu-devel] Brad Cambell's -no-reboot patch.
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Luke Crawford |
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[Qemu-devel] Brad Cambell's -no-reboot patch. |
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Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:21:53 -0700 (PDT) |
re-sending because I wasn't paying attention and posted this as a reply to
another thread. sorry.
--
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.
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