On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 08:37:38AM -0800, Shi Jin wrote:

Hi, there,

In order to install windows 2008 using the virtio driver, I had to modify the KVM command to include the boot=on option like: -drive file=<path>/virtioWin08.raw,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on

However, I haven't been able to find a corresponding libvirt XML element that can enable this "boot=on" option. Is there a way to do this?

If you set <os> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> libvirt will automatically set the boot=on parameter for the first harddisk in the XML Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|