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Bug 643688 - Allow to specify boot order on qemu command line.
Summary: Allow to specify boot order on qemu command line.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: seabios
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: beta
: 6.1
Assignee: Gleb Natapov
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 643687 666922
Blocks: 580954 LibvirtBootOrder
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-10-17 11:20 UTC by Gleb Natapov
Modified: 2013-12-09 00:51 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: seabios-0.6.1.2-2.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 643687
: 666922 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-05-19 13:04:36 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:0564 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE seabios bug fix and enhancement update 2011-05-18 17:57:11 UTC

Description Gleb Natapov 2010-10-17 11:20:21 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #643687 +++

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 4 Gleb Natapov 2011-01-02 10:25:03 UTC 
Rebase of Seabios will be needed to support this feature.
Comment 6 Eduardo Habkost 2011-01-03 18:00:32 UTC 
I have opened bug #666922 for the rebase. Dependencies were set so this bug depends on the rebase.
Comment 13 Keqin Hong 2011-02-11 10:50:08 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 15 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:04:36 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/RHBA-2011-0564.html
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