From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Issues booting off virtual SCSI drives in kvm-69
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 15:15:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805301515.10390.fjwcash@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90eb1dc70805301450v2458d5a3m5a24374c4a63df56@mail.gmail.com>
On May 30, 2008 02:50 pm you wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Am I missing something simple, or can you only boot off virtual IDE
> > drives?
>
> add 'boot=on' to the drive specification:
>
> /usr/bin/kvm -name webmail -daemonize -localtime -usb -usbdevice
> tablet -smp 1 -m 2048 -vnc :05 -pidfile /var/run/kvm/webmail.pid -net
> nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:00:00:05,model=rtl8139 -net tap,ifname=tap05
> -boot c -drive
> index=1,media=disk,if=scsi,file=/dev/mapper/vol0-webmail--storage
> -drive index=0,media=disk,if=scsi,file=/dev/mapper/vol0-webmail,boot=on
>
> that got me for a long time too.
A few minutes after sending this, I found, buried deep down in my google
results, this non-documented option. :) Spent a good hour reading
through mailing list archives, forums posts, and various websites before
finding this.
Anyone willing to update the man pages for qemu and/or kvm-qemu to
document this option? :D
--
Freddie Cash
fjwcash@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-30 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-30 21:10 Issues booting off virtual SCSI drives in kvm-69 Freddie Cash
2008-05-30 21:50 ` Javier Guerra
2008-05-30 22:15 ` Freddie Cash [this message]
2008-05-31 1:21 ` [PATCH] qemu: document "boot" option for "drive" flag Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-06-04 10:08 ` Avi Kivity
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