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From: | Avi Kivity |
Subject: | [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks |
Date: | Tue, 11 May 2010 11:19:07 +0300 |
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On 05/10/2010 06:48 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 05/10/2010 03:11 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:This patch adds native support for booting from virtio disks to Seabios. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov<address@hidden>A related problem that I think we need to think about how we solve is indicating to Seabios which device we want to boot fromWith your patch, a user can select a virtio device explicitly or if they use only one virtio device, it will Just Work.However, if a user uses IDE and virtio, or a user has multiple disks, they cannot select a device via -boot.Is this something we need to address? I don't think we'd break libvirt if we didn't.
BIOSes traditionally address this by storing the boot order in RTC non-volatile memory, and allow the user to configure the order via a menu. We could do the same (storing the RTC memory in a small disk image).
Alternatively we can seed the order from the command line (-boot id1,id2,id3 where id* are some qdev property attached to disks, this is more flexible than the current syntax I think).
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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