On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 11:08:32AM +0000, Gonglei (Arei) wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michael S. Tsirkin [mailto:m...@redhat.com] > > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 5:29 PM > > To: Gonglei (Arei) > > Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; afaer...@suse.de; ag...@suse.de; > > stefa...@redhat.com; ak...@redhat.com; a...@ozlabs.ru; > > alex.william...@redhat.com; arm...@redhat.com; ebl...@redhat.com; > > kw...@redhat.com; peter.mayd...@linaro.org; lcapitul...@redhat.com; > > pbonz...@redhat.com; ler...@redhat.com; kra...@redhat.com; > > imamm...@redhat.com; dmi...@daynix.com; marce...@redhat.com; > > peter.crosthwa...@xilinx.com; r...@twiddle.net; so...@cmu.edu; > > Huangweidong (C); Luonengjun; Huangpeng (Peter); chenliang (T) > > Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] modify boot order when vm is running > > > > 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. > > Yes, so we should assure it take effect after the guest rebooting.
Does this patch do it like this? I didn't get it. How is this handled? Maybe more code comments would be helpful to make this clear to readers. > > 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. > > > Agreed. > > But at present, the boot index can be used for the boot order > except "-boot" command line. Because "-boot" only can assign > the guest booting from HD or Network or Floppy etc.. but cannot > assign the index of hard disks or PXE net cards, which not be enough > for many scenes, such as P2V, or two different system hard disks > (vda/sda/hda). > > > Best regards, > -Gonglei
