[Qemu-devel] Brad Cambell's -no-reboot patch.

[Qemu-devel] Brad Cambell's -no-reboot patch.

[Luke Crawford]

I have a client that has an existing systemimager infrastructure 
management system;  I am helping them virtualize their computer systems 
using Xen.  The version of systemimager they use uses a heavily modified 
2.4 linux kernel on a floppy to boot new computers.   I set them up with 
QEMU to do the same thing from the dom0 to install domUs.  (that is, they 
run qemu in the master (driver) domain, and it installs into the 
unprivileged domain, or the virtual server)   The problem is that once 
the install finishes, the system reboots;  the idea being that 
with the floppy, you boot and then take the floppy out, and the system 
reboots into the installed system.   With qemu, this just infinitely 
loops.  (I'm sure this could be fixed in systemimager, but frankly I am 
more comfortable playing with qemu than with systemimager.)

Anyhow, I did some googling, and found Brad Cambell's -no-reboot patch, 
and it solves the problem nicely.

http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg06327.html

the patch applies cleanly to the current stable qemu release, but it sure 
would be nice if it were included in the base qemu distribution;  most of 
my clients are a little uncomfortable compiling their own software, and 
patch is right out.

What needs to happen to get this patch committed?  I'd be willing to spend 
some time on it if required.

[Qemu-devel] Brad Cambell's -no-reboot patch.

[Luke Crawford]

re-sending because I wasn't paying attention and posted this as a reply to 
another thread.  sorry.

--

I have a client that has an existing systemimager infrastructure management 
system;  I am helping them virtualize their computer systems using Xen.  The 
version of systemimager they use uses a heavily modified 2.4 linux kernel on a 
floppy to boot new computers.   I set them up with QEMU to do the same thing 
from the dom0 to install domUs.  (that is, they run qemu in the master (driver) 
domain, and it installs into the unprivileged domain, or the virtual server) 
The problem is that once the install finishes, the system reboots;  the idea 
being that with the floppy, you boot and then take the floppy out, and the 
system reboots into the installed system.   With qemu, this just infinitely 
loops.  (I'm sure this could be fixed in systemimager, but frankly I am more 
comfortable playing with qemu than with systemimager.)

Anyhow, I did some googling, and found Brad Cambell's -no-reboot patch, and it 
solves the problem nicely.

http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg06327.html

the patch applies cleanly to the current stable qemu release, but it sure would 
be nice if it were included in the base qemu distribution;  most of my clients 
are a little uncomfortable compiling their own software, and patch is right 
out.

What needs to happen to get this patch committed?  I'd be willing to spend some 
time on it if required.



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Re: [Qemu-devel] Brad Cambell's -no-reboot patch.

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Luke Crawford wrote:

> re-sending because I wasn't paying attention and posted this as a reply to
> another thread.  sorry.

No need to. It has just been applied.

Ciao,
Dscho

Re: [Qemu-devel] Brad Cambell's -no-reboot patch.

[Andrew Barr]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 13:21 -0700, Luke Crawford wrote:
> what needs to happen to get this patch committed?  

I think it was just committed to CVS if I'm not mistaken.