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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios |
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Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:32:48 +0200 |
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Am 11.10.2010 12:18, schrieb Gleb Natapov:
> Currently if VM is started with multiple disks it is almost impossible to
> guess which one of them will be used as boot device especially if there
> is a mix of ATA/virtio/SCSI devices. Essentially BIOS decides the order
> and without looking into the code you can't tell what the order will
> be (and in qemu-kvm if boot=on is used it brings even more havoc). We
> should allow fine-grained control of boot order from qemu command line,
> or as a minimum control what device will be used for booting.
>
> To do that along with inventing syntax to specify boot order on qemu
> command line we need to communicate boot order to seabios via fw_cfg
> interface. For that we need to have a way to unambiguously specify a
> disk from qemu to seabios. PCI bus address is not enough since not all
> devices are PCI (do we care about them?)
Floppy? Yes, I think we do.
> and since one PCI device may
> control more then one disk (ATA slave/master, SCSI LUNs). We can do what
> EDD specification does. Describe disk as:
> bus type (isa/pci),
> address on a bus (16 bit base address for isa, b/s/f for pci)
> device type (ATA/SCSI/VIRTIO)
> device path (slave/master for ATA, LUN for SCSI, nothing for virtio)
If we had a qdev ID for all devices (which I think we should have
anyway), would this work or is a string not really handy enough?
Kevin
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios,
Kevin Wolf <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gerd Hoffmann, 2010/10/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/11
- Re: [SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Passing boot order from qemu to seabios, Gleb Natapov, 2010/10/11