On 29 August 2011 11:12, Peter Lieven <p...@dlh.net> wrote: > Hi, > > when I specify something like > > qemu -boot order=dc -cdrom image.iso -drive file=img.raw,if=virtio,boot=yes > > or > > qemu -boot order=n -cdrom image.iso -drive file=img.raw,if=virtio,boot=yes > > with qemu-kvm 0.15.0 > > it will always directly boot from the hardrive and not from cdrom or > network. > is this on purpose? the behaviour was different in earlier versions. > If i omit the boot=yes in the drive specification the "-boot order" > parameter is working > as expected.
This is the qemu doc file: http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html and this is qemu-kvm man page: http://linux.die.net/man/1/qemu-kvm I have never seen the boot=yes as an option to the argument -drive. I have also checked on previous versions of qemu and I haven't seen it so I'm puzzled why it should have worked in the first instance. [ BTW this question would be better suited to a qemu-users mailing list or forum... if there was one... ] -- Ottavio A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
