Re: [Kimchi-devel] [RFC] Change guest boot order on REST API
On 06/01/2016 05:24 PM, Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital wrote:
On Jun 01 05:12PM, Ramon Medeiros wrote:
> Propose: Kimchi allow to change boot order ("fd", "hd",
"cdrom" or
> "network")
>
> hd device can specify which disk will be booted
>
> Rest API will receive answer from
>
> /plugins/kimchi/<VM NAME>/bootorder
>
> {[{"dev": "hd"}]} or a list: {[{"dev": "hd"},
{"dev": "cdrom"}]}
>
> Doubts:
>
> How we can edit the bootloader? Like the list above or a kind of fixed list?
>
Check https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/blob/master/xmlutils/bootorder.py
Nice
> Libvirt provides bootmenu too, which allows users to pick a device in the
> beginning. Must have it?
>
IMO, we just need control the sequence of boot order in the code above.
Nice, but
how ?
We will use "update()" or a different field, like
plugins/kimchi/vms/<vm>/bootorder ?
About the order, how we will include the device when hd is first?
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> Ramon Nunes Medeiros
> Kimchi Developer
> Linux Technology Center Brazil
> IBM Systems & Technology Group
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