On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:30:41AM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 29/07/09 11:21, Ján ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
And one thing, which can make me happy. When I am trying virtual machines, I often reinstall existing one. Then I need to boot from network and after installation again from disk. I can't test new gPXE until it will work with my F11 kernel, may be it's better with this, but with currently functional bootrom I can't boot from disk if network boot is enabled and vice versa. If my guest is set to boot from disk (after previous installation) and I need to reinstall it, I have to do these steps:
- click details panel (i)
- click "Boot Options"
- click on "Boot Device" menu
- select "Network (PXE)" and confirm (click)
- click "Apply"
- click back to guest console
- click start (play button)
That's not a virt-manager issue, it's a qemu issue I assume.
It works for me though - if I have network boot selected that I can bring up the boot menu with F12 and select the hard disk instead?
What I suspect you may be referring to is the fact that if you don't have network boot set as the default then the F12 boot menu doesn't include the network option - so you can't be set to boot from the hard disk by default and then choose to boot from network instead using the boot menu.
I too find that rather annoying, but as I say it is (I believe) a qemu issue rather than a libvirt issue.
I agree. On a real PC, I can press "F12" key to boot from PXE or to select different like preset boot device.
But virt-manager can simplify change to/from PXE, for example: - change input box for boot device to radius buttons - remove "Apply" button and apply automatically (at least if possible)
SAL