Re: Failure to boot CDROM with -drive arg

[Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>]

Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 à 10:21 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange a écrit :
> 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:
> > > 
> > > # qemu-kvm -cdrom /home/berrange/boot.iso -boot d -m 500
> > > 
> > > # qemu-kvm -drive file=/home/berrange/boot.iso,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2,boot=on -m 500
> > 
> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1977971&group_id=180599&atid=893831
> 
> Ok, so basically this is saying that boot=on only works for media=disk.
> I really don't like the fact that we now have 2 different ways of flagging
> bootable disks, depending on whether want to use BIOS boot or extboot.
> 
> The management apps shouldn't have to make such a decision - QEMU should
> be picking the most appropriate choice for us. ie, if we have boot=on
> with an IDE cdrom, then QEMU should automatically do a BIOS boot instead
> of extboot. This way if extboot gets improved, QEMU can update its logic
> to correspond without needing to change all the management apps using
> QEMU.

I agree.

Laurent
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