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From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
To: Javier Guerra <javier@guerrag.com>
Cc: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] qemu: document "boot" option for "drive" flag
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 20:21:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080531012156.GA6851@tapir> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90eb1dc70805301450v2458d5a3m5a24374c4a63df56@mail.gmail.com>

complement 982e9b725e32f58158b6b9968f04e3377f52e63 with some basic
documentation, extracted from the commit message.

Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
---
 qemu/qemu-doc.texi |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qemu/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu/qemu-doc.texi
index 7a24676..fcb220f 100644
--- a/qemu/qemu-doc.texi
+++ b/qemu/qemu-doc.texi
@@ -266,6 +266,8 @@ These options have the same definition as they have in @option{-hdachs}.
 Specify which disk @var{format} will be used rather than detecting
 the format.  Can be used to specifiy format=raw to avoid interpreting
 an untrusted format header.
+@item boot=@var{boot}
+@var{boot} if "on" allows to enable extboot for a given drive so it can be used as a boot drive.
 @end table
 
 Instead of @option{-cdrom} you can use:
@@ -297,6 +299,12 @@ You can connect a SCSI disk with unit ID 6 on the bus #0:
 qemu -drive file=file,if=scsi,bus=0,unit=6
 @end example
 
+To boot from a SCSI disk, one would use:
+
+@example
+qemu -drive file=file,if=scsi,boot=on
+@end example
+
 Instead of @option{-fda}, @option{-fdb}, you can use:
 @example
 qemu -drive file=file,index=0,if=floppy
-- 
1.5.3.7


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-31  1:28 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
2008-05-31  1:21   ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon [this message]
2008-06-04 10:08     ` [PATCH] qemu: document "boot" option for "drive" flag Avi Kivity

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