[SeaBIOS] [coreboot] seabios feature request : reboot VM or retry boot devices when no valid boot disk is found

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Sat May 12 12:34:31 CEST 2012


Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > I'd suggest printf("No bootable device found. Retrying in 5 seconds...\n");
> > and lowering the timeout.
> 
> On host running hundreds of VMs reboot each 5 seconds may generate a lot
> of unneeded load.

Not a whole lot more than when the VMs are up and running.


> Better make it configurable with option to disable the behaviour.

Sure, if 0 then don't retry.


//Peter



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