On 05/10/2010 10:54 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:48:42AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 05/10/2010 03:11 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
This patch adds native support for booting from virtio disks to Seabios.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov<g...@redhat.com>
A related problem that I think we need to think about how we solve
is indicating to Seabios which device we want to boot from
With your patch, a user can select a virtio device explicitly or if
they use only one virtio device, it will Just Work.
However, if a user uses IDE and virtio, or a user has multiple
disks, they cannot select a device via -boot.
Isn't this problem unrelated to this patch? I mean if I start qemu with
two ide devices can I specify from qemu command line which one I want to
boot from?
That's sort of what I'm asking. If you compare this approach to
extboot, extboot provided a capability to select a disk. I think it can
be argued though that this isn't a necessary feature to carry over and
I'm looking for additional opinions on that.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
