On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:34:16PM +0000, Gildas wrote: > 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 :)
There's a patch for this floating around. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg06675.html We use it in KVM / Xen on Fedora. Not sure offhand if Bochs project ever accepted the patch in their upstream for the BIOS. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|
