On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 07:49:40PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 05/10/2010 06:58 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >>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. > > I'd say it's a necessary feature, but not one to carry over from the > extboot implementation. We have the seabios boot menu (how to reach > it?), we need to store the nvram persistently, and we need to > extend the selection menu to qemu, but that's unrelated to this > patch. > To reach seabios boot menu run qemu with "-boot menu=on" option and press f12 when prompted.
-- Gleb.