On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 02:08:13PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 01:16:00PM +0200, Bernhard Kohl wrote:
I think this also applies to network booting via gPXE. Usually our VMs have 4 NICs, mixed virtio-net and PCI pass-through. 2 of the NICs shall be used for booting, even if there are hard disks or floppy disks connected. This scenario is currently almost impossible to configure.
I already posted a patch 'new parameter boot=on|off for "-net nic" and "-device" NIC devices' which should solve that problem for us. The patch is still under discussion. Of course passing detailed boot device information to SeaBIOS would be the best solution.
Yeah, forgot to specify net booting specifically. Do we emulate usb storage? If yes it can be bootable too.
USB emultion is supported by qemu, and being able to specify a boot from USB drive should be supported IMO.
-Kevin