From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzBRN-0001wr-PD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:34:29 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzBRM-0001vd-2v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:34:29 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IzBRL-0001vR-T0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:34:27 -0500 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.187]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IzBRL-0002r7-N3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:34:27 -0500 Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i2so85830mue for ; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:34:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:34:16 +0000 From: Gildas MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [Qemu-devel] feature request: changing boot device in the monitor Reply-To: 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 Hi, I don't know whether this is an easy one or not and if it will apply to all archs, but I'd like to see an option in the monitor to change/override the value given for -boot. This way, for instance if you install a VM from a CDROM using "-boot d", you would be able to restart it on the hard-drive from the monitor with something like "boot c" followed by "system_reset". I know there is still the workaround of stopping the emulation and restarting it with a different set of commands, but when remotely accessing a VM with a lots of redirection/connection, it's not very handy. Of course there is also an orthogonal way of doing this consisting in adding a boot menu to the BIOS. Implementing both ways would of course be nice, but the monitor solution would have my preference :) Regards, Gildas