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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm: remove "boot=on|off" drive parameter
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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