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.