Re: [Qemu-devel] change boot device in monitor

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Anand Kumria wrote:

> Attached is a patch which allows you to change the boot device in the
> monitor. The change won't take affect until the next 'system_reset' but
> I've found it useful as I can specify a floppy, hard disk and cdrom and
> switch between booting them without exiting.

I like this feature! (Also your "info version").

> As I'm now going to be working on a way to modify the memory amount within
> the monitor. The struct_vm would basically be the what is used for
> savevm/loadvm. Thoughts?

Well, I prefer to specify the memory on the command line. Of course, if
you loadvm with a different size, this does not work AFAIK, but IMHO it
does not make sense to support virtual hot-plugging of memory ;-)

Ciao,
Dscho