[Users] Can I delay boot of VM so to interact with grub?

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gianluca Cecchi" <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>
> To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 1:00:32 PM
> Subject: [Users] Can I delay boot of VM so to interact with grub?
> 
> Hello,
> in VMware I can choose two things that sometimes are useful
> 
> 1) boot directly in bios
> I choose this when I want to attach an iso image to the VM
> In oVirt probably could be obtained with run once and attach cd.
> But in general it could be interesting this opportunity
> 
> 2) choose a delay in boot
> This way I can use the VM console befaore OS starts and if needed I
> can interact with boot loader
> (grub in Linux VM for example).
> 
> When I open a spice console I'm not able to get usability before os
> already in start after grub.

use "run once" to start a VM and in boot options pick "start paused" 


> 
> I see to options:
> - create  a delay in boot as in VMware
> - give spice console the "-w" (for wait) option that already existed
> in virt-viewer and not in remote-viewer so that one can spawn a
> console window before the VM ha already been started.
> 
> What do you think?
> Is there anything already in place to jump into a vm before grub
> completes (other than setting a long delay in grub itself)?
> 
> Thanks
> Gianluca
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