From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 19:49:40 +0300 Message-ID: <4BEC2DA4.80303@redhat.com> References: <20100510081118.GI24787@redhat.com> <4BE82ADA.6000302@codemonkey.ws> <20100510155400.GB4497@redhat.com> <4BE82D35.1060401@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gleb Natapov , seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:41574 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751776Ab0EMQuJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2010 12:50:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4BE82D35.1060401@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/10/2010 06:58 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Isn't this problem unrelated to this patch? I mean if I start qemu with >> two ide devices can I specify from qemu command line which one I want to >> boot from? > > That's sort of what I'm asking. If you compare this approach to > extboot, extboot provided a capability to select a disk. I think it > can be argued though that this isn't a necessary feature to carry over > and I'm looking for additional opinions on that. I'd say it's a necessary feature, but not one to carry over from the extboot implementation. We have the seabios boot menu (how to reach it?), we need to store the nvram persistently, and we need to extend the selection menu to qemu, but that's unrelated to this patch. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.