Bug 643687

Summary: Allow to specify boot order on qemu command line.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Gleb Natapov <gleb>
Component: qemu-kvmAssignee: Gleb Natapov <gleb>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.1CC: ehabkost, gcosta, khong, knoel, lihuang, michen, mkenneth, tburke, virt-maint
Target Milestone: beta   
Target Release: 6.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.136.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 643688 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-05-19 11:28:42 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 580954, 643688, 646895    

Description Gleb Natapov 2010-10-17 11:18:31 UTC
We need to allow to specify boot order from qemu command line to have better control of a guest behaviour. Qemu should build list of all bootable devices and pass the preferred order into Seabios.

Comment 10 Keqin Hong 2011-02-11 10:49:03 UTC
Verified on qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.144.el6.x86_64 and seabios-0.6.1.2-3.el6.x86_64. PASS.

Steps:
1. Decide boot order for multiple block and NIC devices
2. Boot by passing boot order decided
3. Change boot order, and repeat step 1 and step 2

CLI e.g.
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -drive file=disk1.img,if=none,id=disk1 \
  -device ide-drive,drive=disk1,bootindex=4 \
  -drive file=disk2.img,if=none,id=disk2 \
  -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=disk2,bootindex=3 \
  -netdev tap,id=net0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mac=xxxx,bootindex=2 \
  -netdev tap,id=net1 -device e1000,netdev=net1,mac=yyyy,bootindex=1 \
  -drive file=OS.iso,if=none,id=os,media=cdrom,format=raw \
  -device ide-drive,drive=os,id=ide0-0-1,bootindex=0 \
  -drive if=none,file=fda.img,id=fda -drive if=none,file=fdb.img,id=fdb \
  -global isa-fdc.bootindexB=30 -global isa-fdc.bootindexA=40

Manual test runs:
https://tcms.engineering.redhat.com/run/16935/ 
https://tcms.engineering.redhat.com/run/16934/

Comment 12 Miya Chen 2011-03-10 05:49:11 UTC
move to verified based on comment#10.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 11:28:42 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0534.html

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 12:49:33 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0534.html