Hi Jeremy, I gave this patch a try today against the latest git 1edeb9c05aa034633978f31e2c773a1be55ed337 and I cannot get past the "Press F10..." prompt. I'm on an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It does work though with -no-kvm.
Have you tested this patch with KVM? Regards, Anthony Liguori Jeremy Katz wrote: > I sent this to the bochs list earlier today, but given that kvm is > already carrying patches for the BIOS, it may be worthwhile/interesting > to add this also as it can make the user experience substantially nicer. > > -- Begin forwarded message -- > > The attached patch adds support for a relatively basic boot device > selection menu to the bochs bios code. > Hi J > Instead of immediately booting from the boot device set in the cmos, we > wait for 3 seconds for the user to press F10; if they press it, then we > show a basic boot menu that they can select what device to boot from. > Otherwise, we continue on with what was setup before running the virtual > machine. The advantage is that users can change their boot device just > on rebooting a virtual machine rather than having to stop and then > restart it. > > This includes the wait routines added by VirtualBox > (http://www.virtualbox.org) in their modifications to the rombios as > they made things a bit easier. > > Jeremy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > kvm-devel mailing list > kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
