Re: [PATCH 0/4] Arguments to skip boot menu and to hide bios output

Jan Kiszka
2009-02-07T11:13:14Z

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Cory Fields wrote:
> This patchset creates new commandline arguments -quietboot and
> -fastboot

Great, this allows me to remove one item from my to-do list. :)

>
> -quietboot silences normal text output from the bios and vgabios. I
> rarely care to see this output and it looks much cleaner when the
> first thing shown in a KVM window is init or splash (or the dreaded
> Windows logo)
>
> -fastboot lets you explicitly skip the "Press f12 for boot menu" option
> saving ~3 seconds on each boot. It is also implied by -kernel -boot
> or -quietboot.

When reworking the patches for qemu, please turn fastboot on by default.
Most qemu and kvm users don't need the boot menu of the bios. Those who
really want it should explicitly enable it.

I think it is even worth suggesting the same for quietboot, but let's
postpone the discussion to the final thread on qemu-devel

Jan

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