[Kimchi-devel] [RFC] Change guest boot order on REST API

[Ramon Medeiros]

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
Phone : +55 19 2132 7878
ramonn at br.ibm.com