From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iko3w-0001NU-Do for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:46:52 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iko3r-0001JI-P6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:46:51 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iko3r-0001JE-Hh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:46:47 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iko3r-0003bR-4r for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:46:47 -0400 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l9OLkehh006217 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:46:41 -0400 Received: from file.surrey.redhat.com (file.fab.redhat.com [10.33.63.6]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l9OLkeKS008158 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:46:40 -0400 Received: (from berrange@localhost) by file.surrey.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id l9OLkdXt022348 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:46:39 +0100 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:46:39 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] set boot sequence from command line Message-ID: <20071024214639.GO10807@redhat.com> References: <20071024084611.GA10261@karma.qumranet.com> <471FBC00.2020102@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <471FBC00.2020102@codemonkey.ws> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:41:20PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > >Real PCs try to boot from a CD, then try the hard drive, and finally go > >to the network. And they let their owner change that order. > >This patch lets Qemu do the same with "-boot dcn". > > > >I'll be happy to hear comments about it, > > > > Looks good to me. I wrote a very similar patch recently but haven't > gotten around to submitting it. I'm very eager to see this included! A more or less identical patch to this has been in Xen's fork of QEMU for quite a while & works nicely, so it'd definitely be good to have this in the main QEMU codebase. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|