From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56836 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OCbbe-0007Lz-Qb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 May 2010 12:49:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OCbbb-0005jE-Ne for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 May 2010 12:49:54 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:26134) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OCbbY-0005iO-2Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 May 2010 12:49:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4BEC2DA4.80303@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 19:49:40 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20100510081118.GI24787@redhat.com> <4BE82ADA.6000302@codemonkey.ws> <20100510155400.GB4497@redhat.com> <4BE82D35.1060401@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4BE82D35.1060401@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCHv2] Support for booting from virtio disks List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gleb Natapov , kvm@vger.kernel.org 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.