[libvirt] [PATCH 0/4] allow OVMF users to disable qemu's "-boot strict=on"

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:33:18AM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> Recently,
> 
>   commit 96fddee322c7d39a57cfdc5e7be71326d597d30a
>   Author: Laine Stump <laine at laine.org>
>   Date:   Mon Dec 2 14:07:12 2013 +0200
> 
>       qemu: add "-boot strict" to commandline whenever possible
> 
> introduced a regression for OVMF guests. The symptoms and causes are
> described in patch 3/4, and in
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056258
> 
> Let's allow users to opt-out of "-boot strict=on" while preserving it as
> default.

I don't really get from that bug description why this can't be
made to work as desired in OVMF. It seems like its is just a
bug in the OVMF impl that it doesn't work.

Danbiel
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