From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent Vivier Subject: Re: Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:29:24 +0200 Message-ID: <1215509364.3805.15.camel@frecb07144> References: <20080708083730.GC24934@redhat.com> <20080708091724.GA4861@ralph.linux2go.dk> <20080708092149.GF24934@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Return-path: Received: from ecfrec.frec.bull.fr ([129.183.4.8]:48546 "EHLO ecfrec.frec.bull.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753811AbYGHJ3b (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 05:29:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080708092149.GF24934@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 =C3=A0 10:21 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange a =C3=A9= crit : > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:17:24AM +0200, Soren Hansen wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:37:30AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > The following two command lines should be identical from the user= 's > > > point of view: > > >=20 > > > # qemu-kvm -cdrom /home/berrange/boot.iso -boot d -m 500 > > >=20 > > > # qemu-kvm -drive file=3D/home/berrange/boot.iso,if=3Dide,media=3D= cdrom,index=3D2,boot=3Don -m 500 > >=20 > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D197797= 1&group_id=3D180599&atid=3D893831 >=20 > Ok, so basically this is saying that boot=3Don only works for media=3D= disk. > I really don't like the fact that we now have 2 different ways of fla= gging > bootable disks, depending on whether want to use BIOS boot or extboot= =2E >=20 > The management apps shouldn't have to make such a decision - QEMU sho= uld > be picking the most appropriate choice for us. ie, if we have boot=3D= on > with an IDE cdrom, then QEMU should automatically do a BIOS boot inst= ead > of extboot. This way if extboot gets improved, QEMU can update its lo= gic > to correspond without needing to change all the management apps using > QEMU. I agree. Laurent --=20 --------- Laurent.Vivier@bull.net ---------- "=EF=BB=BF=EF=BB=BFL'avenir ne se pr=C3=A9voit pas, il se pr=C3=A9pare.= " - Maurice Blondel