From: "François Revol" <revol@free.fr>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] wake-on-lan & IPMI implementation; real power-off and -no-shutdown
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:22:44 +0100 CET [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3476660323-BeMail@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100316172851.GB19160@shareable.org>
> I use -no-reboot so that when the guest does a reboot during
> installation, as they invariably do one or more times, QEMU exits, my
> scripts does things eject the CD/floppy, or change it for the next in
> sequence, and modify the guest's installed files to add virtio
> drivers, install extra fiels, edit boot scripts and whatever else is
> useful, and then restart QEMU.
>
> The guest thinks it's just rebooted, but it has the virtualisation
> goodies in place to run better.
>
> Unfortunately with an MS-DOS 5.00 guest, -no-reboot does not
> work. It fails to exit QEMU; instead it just reboots. I guess that
> means a QJSON event would not be sent either.
I suppose it uses a weird way to reboot, there are many (PS/2
controller, calling the BIOS entry point...).
François.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-16 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-15 15:01 [Qemu-devel] wake-on-lan & IPMI implementation; real power-off and -no-shutdown François Revol
2010-03-15 15:26 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-15 15:37 ` François Revol
2010-03-15 15:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-15 16:00 ` François Revol
2010-03-15 15:55 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-15 16:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-15 16:36 ` François Revol
2010-03-16 17:28 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-03-16 17:44 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-16 18:22 ` François Revol [this message]
2010-03-16 13:53 ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-03-16 14:26 ` François Revol
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