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

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(a)redhat.com&gt; > > 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.