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Re: [qemu-s390x] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/13] Interactive Boot Menu for


From: Collin L. Walling
Subject: Re: [qemu-s390x] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/13] Interactive Boot Menu for DASD and SCSI Guests on s390x
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:57:00 -0500
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On 02/23/2018 05:11 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:

On 02/23/2018 11:07 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
On 22.02.2018 20:40, Collin L. Walling wrote:
On 02/22/2018 11:45 AM, Collin L. Walling wrote:
On 02/22/2018 10:44 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
On 02/22/2018 04:40 PM, Collin L. Walling wrote:
On 02/22/2018 07:23 AM, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote:
On 22.02.2018 12:51, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
Series
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden>
Thanks!!!

menu on scsi and dasd bootmaps tested successfully.

There is one thing that we might want to fix (can be an addon
patch since this is a non-customer
scenario (no libvirt)).

If you start QEMU manually without a bootindex, the -boot menu=on
is ignored
if no drive has a bootindex.

For example:

-drive file=/dev/dasda,if=none,id=d1 -device
virtio-blk-ccw,drive=d1,bootindex=1 -boot menu=on
does work

-drive file=/dev/dasda -boot menu=on
does not

instead it prints:
qemu-system-s390x: boot menu is not supported for this device type.

and the boots up the default entry.

That should indeed be a separate patch, as it would move logic
currently
in the BIOS up to QEMU (find the first defined virtio disk and
select it
as boot disk).
In fact it's more complicated than that, because it would have to
properly account for -boot order=[acdn] and produce the respective
IPLB.
While it makes sense, I wouldn't rush that in but rather change the
error message to indicate that -device bootindex is needed to activate
the menu, at least for the time being.
[...]

I can look into it.  Theoretically, the easier fix should just
involve parsing all
of the -device commands and looking for a "bootindex=1" field. The
Qemu options
code already handles a bulk of this work, so it's just a matter of
putting it all
together.

Shall I whip something up and post what I have as a reply to this
email chain?
In fact, it should already be there.

static bool s390_gen_initial_iplb(S390IPLState *ipl)
{
      DeviceState *dev_st;

      dev_st = get_boot_device(0);

--> if this returns 0 we have no bootindex statement anywhere and the
BIOS will IPL the default
disk.


Makes sense.  I'm working on making this patch look as clean as
possible. The fact that no boot menu
options present means we fallback to using zipl values for CCW being
tied into the switch statement
is making things a bit tricky. Just have to think the logic through a
bit.  Will get back to you once
I have something good.

This should do the trick (this can also be squished painlessly into 6/13
if desired)
Patch looks fine to me. I can either take it directly like this, or in
case you have to respin (depends on the problem that Christian reported
with the Ubuntu guest), I'm also fine if you squash it into an earlier
patch instead.
FWIW, my problem (a menu happens even without -boot menu=on or loadparm) also
happens with other guests (e.g. fedora).


Is this on guests using DASD?  If so, a boot menu will appear if the appropriate zipl configuration values are set (even if no -boot menu or loadparm).  Patch 12/13 goes into more detail.

Is this not wanted behavior?

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- Collin L Walling




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