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

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:00:48AM +0200, Maurits van de Lande wrote:
> In my case a 60 second reboot will do fine. Then the VM's can
> eventualy boot when the iSCSI storage is up again. I do not know how
> seabios integrates with qemu and KVM but it would be nice if the new
> reboot timeout option could be used without having to modify qemu.
> When the bootmenu is enabled I found the following line in my  VM
> config file
> < bootmenu enable="yes"/>
> Does this mean that all options specified after bootmenu are being
> send to seabios? Could a boot 60 second timeout value be set like
> this?
> < bootmenu enable="no" boot_timeout="60"/>

No, that wont work.  Unfortunately, there is no current mechanism to
pass an option from Qemu to SeaBIOS without a QEmu code change.

-Kevin