From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, "Scott Moser" <smoser@ubuntu.com>,
"Jan Kiszka" <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
"Marcelo Tosatti" <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
"Michael Tokarev" <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Anthony Liguori" <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
"Cole Robinson" <crobinso@redhat.com>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:20:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5069A6B4.2030605@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87E3189E-37BB-43A9-A324-2BAA007F1E57@suse.de>
Il 01/10/2012 16:07, Alexander Graf ha scritto:
>>> -drive ...,boot= <- this is ignored
>
> It's ignored, but useful for certain things. I don't know how many of
> our users use boot= today, but it's certainly still in the code, and
> supported. I honestly wouldn't mind to carry a SUSE specific patch
> that implements boot= for now until we can deem it deprecated enough
> that we can drop it.
Extboot is not going to be backported to QEMU, but SeaBIOS can now boot
from all emulated device models except MegaSAS. So we may at most have
just the option, for example making it an alias for bootindex=1 on the
corresponding device.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-01 14:21 UTC|newest]
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2012-10-01 13:19 ` [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility Anthony Liguori
2012-10-01 13:26 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-03 9:55 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-10-03 10:06 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-03 10:11 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-10-03 10:57 ` Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2012-10-03 13:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-03 13:27 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-10-04 10:48 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-04 12:10 ` Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2012-10-04 12:27 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-04 17:21 ` Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2012-10-04 17:24 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 13:31 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-10-01 13:36 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 13:44 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-10-01 13:48 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 13:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 13:46 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 14:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-01 14:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: Set default accelerator to "kvm" if the host supports it Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 16:20 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-01 16:56 ` Aurelien Jarno
2012-10-03 9:02 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-03 20:01 ` Blue Swirl
2012-10-03 20:26 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-05 1:15 ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-05 2:17 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-05 2:24 ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-05 8:15 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-08 14:03 ` Andreas Färber
2012-10-08 14:08 ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-01 16:43 ` Andreas Färber
2012-10-01 16:47 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-10-01 19:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-01 19:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-01 20:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-02 7:46 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-10-02 8:15 ` Aurelien Jarno
2012-10-03 6:58 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-10-03 9:05 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-01 14:07 ` [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter compatibility Alexander Graf
2012-10-01 14:20 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-10-01 15:39 ` Bruce Rogers
2012-10-02 8:14 ` Daniel P. Berrange
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