[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Allow setting boot menu on/off

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Tue Jul 27 12:59:08 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:48:07AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 07/27/2010 06:13 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 04:31:23PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> >> Add a new element to the <os> block:
> >>
> >>   <bootmenu enable="yes|no"/>
> >>
> >> Which maps to -boot,menu=on|off on the QEMU command line.
> >>
> >> I decided to use an explicit 'enable' attribute rather than just make the
> >> bootmenu element boolean. This allows us to treat lack of a bootmenu element
> >> as 'use hypervisor default'.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com>
> > 
> > I'm wondering what we should do if we need a further option
> > to turn on/off the PXE boot menus that SEABIOS now adds to
> > QEMU for each NIC. I guess that might be a separate 
> > <bootmenu> element within the <interface> device so probably
> > wouldn't impact this modelling
> > 
> 
> Yeah, I think we eventually need some sort of <boot> element at the
> device level anyways, to support booting off hdb instead of hda for
> example. But yeah, I don't think it should affect this patch.

  Agreed, ACK,

Daniel

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