Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks

[Avi Kivity]

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.