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[Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio dis
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Gleb Natapov |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks |
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Sun, 16 May 2010 11:28:33 +0300 |
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 07:49:40PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/10/2010 06:58 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>Isn't this problem unrelated to this patch? I mean if I start qemu with
> >>two ide devices can I specify from qemu command line which one I want to
> >>boot from?
> >
> >That's sort of what I'm asking. If you compare this approach to
> >extboot, extboot provided a capability to select a disk. I think
> >it can be argued though that this isn't a necessary feature to
> >carry over and I'm looking for additional opinions on that.
>
> I'd say it's a necessary feature, but not one to carry over from the
> extboot implementation. We have the seabios boot menu (how to reach
> it?), we need to store the nvram persistently, and we need to
> extend the selection menu to qemu, but that's unrelated to this
> patch.
>
To reach seabios boot menu run qemu with "-boot menu=on" option and press
f12 when prompted.
--
Gleb.
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks, Gleb Natapov, 2010/05/10
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/11
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2010/05/11
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks, Gleb Natapov, 2010/05/11
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks, Kevin O'Connor, 2010/05/11
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks, Gleb Natapov, 2010/05/11
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks, Kevin O'Connor, 2010/05/11
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks, Gleb Natapov, 2010/05/11
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/12
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks, Gleb Natapov, 2010/05/12
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks, Kevin O'Connor, 2010/05/12