Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [Qemu PATCH v2] add a boot option to do strict boot

On 01/09/2013 01:39 AM, Amos Kong wrote: > Current seabios will try to boot from selected devices first, > if they are all failed, seabios will also try to boot from > un-selected devices. > > We need to make it configurable. I already posted a seabios > patch to add a new device type to halt booting. Qemu can add > "HALT" at the end of bootindex string, then seabios will halt > booting after trying to boot from selected devices. > > This option only effects when boot priority is changed by > bootindex options, the old style(-boot order=..) will still > try to boot from un-selected devices. > > v2: add HALT entry in get_boot_devices_list() > define boot_strict to bool > > Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong(a)redhat.com&gt; > --- Libvirt will need to expose an attribute that lets the user control whether to use this new option; how do we probe via QMP whether the new -boot strict=on command-line option is available?