On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 02:08:13PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 01:16:00PM +0200, Bernhard Kohl wrote: > > I think this also applies to network booting via gPXE. Usually our VMs > > have 4 NICs, mixed virtio-net and PCI pass-through. 2 of the NICs shall > > be used for booting, even if there are hard disks or floppy disks > > connected. This scenario is currently almost impossible to configure. > > > > I already posted a patch 'new parameter boot=on|off for "-net nic" and > > "-device" NIC devices' which should solve that problem for us. The > > patch is still under discussion. Of course passing detailed boot device > > information to SeaBIOS would be the best solution. > > > Yeah, forgot to specify net booting specifically. Do we emulate usb > storage? If yes it can be bootable too.
USB emultion is supported by qemu, and being able to specify a boot from USB drive should be supported IMO. -Kevin