From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for a basic boot menu to the bios Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:14:47 -0500 Message-ID: <46EAEBB7.5070407@codemonkey.ws> References: <1189626953.16586.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel To: Jeremy Katz Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1189626953.16586.6.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > kvm-devel mailing list > kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/