Re: [PATCH] Add support for a basic boot menu to the bios

[Anthony Liguori <anthony-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Jeremy,

I gave this patch a try today against the latest git 
1edeb9c05aa034633978f31e2c773a1be55ed337 and I cannot get past the 
"Press F10..." prompt.  I'm on an Intel Core 2 Duo processor.  It does 
work though with -no-kvm.

Have you tested this patch with KVM?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> I sent this to the bochs list earlier today, but given that kvm is
> already carrying patches for the BIOS, it may be worthwhile/interesting
> to add this also as it can make the user experience substantially nicer.
>
> -- Begin forwarded message --
>
> The attached patch adds support for a relatively basic boot device
> selection menu to the bochs bios code.  
> Hi J
> Instead of immediately booting from the boot device set in the cmos, we
> wait for 3 seconds for the user to press F10; if they press it, then we
> show a basic boot menu that they can select what device to boot from.
> Otherwise, we continue on with what was setup before running the virtual
> machine.  The advantage is that users can change their boot device just
> on rebooting a virtual machine rather than having to stop and then
> restart it.
>
> This includes the wait routines added by VirtualBox
> (http://www.virtualbox.org) in their modifications to the rombios as
> they made things a bit easier.
>
> Jeremy
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