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

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 12:36:52PM -0500, Laine Stump wrote: > > Just a note about this: as far as I can tell virt-manager currently only > uses the "old style" of specifying boot order; it needs to be enhanced > to recognize the presence of bootindex=n ordering, and behave > accordingly. Looking from the outside, that looks to be not completely > trivial, as the old style of ordering only allows specifying "hard disk" > as a single line in the priority order, but the new style has each disk > specified separately. Not only that, but *which* of the disks is tried > first under the old order may change depending on whether or not a > bootmenu is requested (in one case it picks unit=0 on the controller, in > the other case, it orders the disks alphabetically by target dev name) Hmm, well libvirt should be using bootindex=n on the QEMU command line regardless of what applications put in the XML. ie if the application uses the old style XML, libvirt should translate that into bootindex=n for them.