From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND][PATCH v2 1/2] Rework -boot option
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:54:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A47A02F.5020108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A45D428.9050600@web.de>
On 06/27/2009 11:11 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> This patch changes the boot command line option to the canonical format
>
> -boot [order=]drives[,interactive=on|off]
>
> where 'drives' is using the same format as the old -boot. The format
> switch allows to add the 'interactive' option and use the existing
> infrastructure to parse it. However, the old format is still understood
> and will be processed at least for a transition time.
>
> The state of 'interactive' is transfered to the firmware via the new
> configuration value FW_CFG_BOOT_INTERACTIVE.
>
Perhaps interactive (and the boot order itself) should be forgotten
after a successful boot? A typical use case is to boot an installer off
the cdrom; the next boot ought to try the hard disk. But perhaps other
use cases don't want that.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-28 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-27 8:11 [Qemu-devel] [RESEND][PATCH v2 1/2] Rework -boot option Jan Kiszka
2009-06-28 16:54 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-06-28 18:15 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-06-28 19:40 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-06-29 6:50 ` Jan Kiszka
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