15.11.2010 18:58, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 15 novembre 2010 à 11:14 +0300, Michael Tokarev a écrit :
>> $ kvm \
>> -drive file=guest.raw,if=virtio,boot=on \
>
> Grah, I knew I was forgetting something. With boot=on it works
> perfectly, without the need for a different bios. Sorry for the mess.
I thought you know about this boot={on|off} parameter, based on the
email thread you referred to in the initial bug report.
This "boot=on" thing is needed only for ways to boot from (virtual)
devices which are not directly supported by BIOS, in a way very similar
to how various add-on cards (such as SCSI) work with real computers (I
already mentioned this in another email).
Apology accepted gladly, thank you for that, -- some people think it
isn't worth their time to even say "sorry". Really, I feel much better
now :)
> Would you mind adding a mention of this option in the manual page? It’s
> documented on the KVM wiki but not in the manpage.
Hm, interesting. Indeed, there's nothing about that in the manpage, it
is only documented (briefly) in `kvm -help' output. I just re-read a
few places from the manpage, it is in quite a bad shape and needs lots
of work to bring it into agreement with all the new options... It's a
work for upstream 0.13 or even 0.14, not 0.12 I'm afraid - because it
have to be up-to-date for the latest version and making it up-to-date
for 0.12 too makes double work. I'll look what can be done there.
So.. can we close this bug now, or should I "downgrade" it to a
documentation (manpage?) wishlist ? I'll probably do the latter.
Thank you!
/mjt
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