Re: [Qemu-devel] wake-on-lan & IPMI implementation; real power-off and -no-shutdown

[François Revol]

> I use -no-reboot so that when the guest does a reboot during
> installation, as they invariably do one or more times, QEMU exits, my
> scripts does things eject the CD/floppy, or change it for the next in
> sequence, and modify the guest's installed files to add virtio
> drivers, install extra fiels, edit boot scripts and whatever else is
> useful, and then restart QEMU.
>
> The guest thinks it's just rebooted, but it has the virtualisation
> goodies in place to run better.
>
> Unfortunately with an MS-DOS 5.00 guest, -no-reboot does not
> work.  It fails to exit QEMU; instead it just reboots.  I guess that
> means a QJSON event would not be sent either.

I suppose it uses a weird way to reboot, there are many (PS/2
controller, calling the BIOS entry point...).

François.