Re: [Qemu-devel] Is this an invalid combination?

[Anthony Liguori]

On 02/15/2011 02:07 PM, Bruce Rogers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We just noticed an issue flagged by a libvirt based test.  This same command 
> line didn't used to fail, and I wanted to be sure that this is behaving as 
> intended.
>
> When the following command line is used on the current qemu version:
>
> x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel /boot/vmlinuz -drive 
> file=~/disk0.raw,if=none,id=foo,boot=on -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=foo
>
> We get the following error reported:
> Two devices with same boot index 0
>
> Previous versions of qemu did not flag this as an error condition.
>    

Upstream QEMU does not have a boolean boot flag although I guess we 
ignore it in -drive which sucks :-/

In upstream QEMU, the BIOS can boot just fine from a virtio device.  
What you're seeing is that we've apparently overloaded the boot flag in 
upstream qemu to mean boot index.

Gleb, what's the right invocation here?

Regards,

ANthony Liguori

> I can see that we are indicating two different boot sources here, so I would 
> guess the command line is invalid, but wanted to be sure.
>
> Bruce
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