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Re: [Qemu-devel] feature request: changing boot device in the monitor
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Daniel P. Berrange |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] feature request: changing boot device in the monitor |
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Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:50:01 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:34:16PM +0000, Gildas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know whether this is an easy one or not and if it will apply
> to all archs, but I'd like to see an option in the monitor to
> change/override the value given for -boot.
>
> This way, for instance if you install a VM from a CDROM using "-boot
> d", you would be able to restart it on the hard-drive from the monitor
> with something like "boot c" followed by "system_reset".
>
> I know there is still the workaround of stopping the emulation and
> restarting it with a different set of commands, but when remotely
> accessing a VM with a lots of redirection/connection, it's not very
> handy.
>
> Of course there is also an orthogonal way of doing this consisting in
> adding a boot menu to the BIOS. Implementing both ways would of course
> be nice, but the monitor solution would have my preference :)
There's a patch for this floating around.
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg06675.html
We use it in KVM / Xen on Fedora. Not sure offhand if Bochs project ever
accepted the patch in their upstream for the BIOS.
Dan.
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