2007/12/3, Daniel P. Berrange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 -=|
Hi Daniel, Thanks for the link. I somehow managed not to see it. For the record, there's a later version of the patch in the same thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg07058.html Which version do you include in Fedora? As far as I can tell, none of the patches were applied to the mainstream bochs rombios.c. Since qemu is shipped with a binary bios image and a diff set for bochs' bios, can this patch be added to qemu's diff set and included in the default bios? Regards, Gildas
