Hi, Gerd Nice to meet you again in maillist. :)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Gerd Hoffmann [mailto:kra...@redhat.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 2:36 PM > Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] modify boot order of guest, and take effect after > rebooting > > > The patchsets add one qmp interface, and add an fw_cfg_machine_reset() > > to achieve it. > > > (qemu) set-bootindex ide0-0-1 1 > > The bootindex 1 has already been used > > What happened to the idea to use qom-set instead? I liked that > suggestion. Solves the suffix issue in a nice way. > I have discussed with Makus about qom-set in pervious confabulation. The main problem is that qom-set's function is simple, which just change a device's property value, but not can do any other logic. In my case, I should change global fw_boot_orde for devices's bootindex taking effect. Please see the details as below, thanks a lot! http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/287636 Best regards, -Gonglei