[libvirt] [Question] Will we support to set boot order online?

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Mar 3 09:58:40 UTC 2014


On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:22:13AM +0000, Wangyufei (James) wrote:
> Hello,
>     I find that QEMU supports to set boot(QMP command "boot_set") order
> online, namely the virtual machine  can be reboot in appointed order,
> but libvirt had no corresponding interface. So, I want to know if libvirt
> intend to  support to set boot order online. If the answer is yes, I'll
> try to apply the patch. If no, why?

AFAIK, no one has looked at this.

NB, this will only work for guests actually using the old style boot
order. Any guests using per-device boot indexes for ordering won't
work with this command.

Regards,
Daniel
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