On 07/07/14 11:29, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 05:10:56PM +0800, arei.gong...@huawei.com wrote: >> From: Chenliang <chenlian...@huawei.com> >> >> Sometime, we want to modify boot order of vm without shutdown it. >> This sets of patches add one qmp to achieve it. And fix some little >> bug when device is hotpluged. >> >> Chenliang (5): >> bootindex: add *_boot_device_path function >> bootindex: reset bootindex when vm reset >> bootindex: delete boot index when device is removed >> bootindex: add qmp to set boot index when vm is running >> bootindex: fix memory leak when ppc sets boot index > > Unfortunately at least for PC, boot order is exposed > in fw cfg which can not change while guest is running. > I suspect we need to change how we report boot order to guests. > While we are at it, maybe we can fix the silly bootindex > convention: I think people really want to specify boot *order*, > not boot index.
Please preserve the "bootorder" fw_cfg file, and its format. I don't have any request in relation to the new (== dynamic) feature ATM. Thanks Laszlo
