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This resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888635 (which was already closed as CANTFIX because the qemu "-boot strict" commandline option wasn't available at the time). Problem: you couldn't have a domain that used PXE to boot, but also had an un-bootable disk device *even if that disk wasn't listed in the boot order*, because if PXE timed out (e.g. due to the bridge forwarding delay), the BIOS would move on to the next target, which would be the unbootable disk device (again - even though it wasn't given a boot order), and get stuck at a "BOOT DISK FAILURE, PRESS ANY KEY" message until a user intervened. The solution available since sometime around QEMU 1.5, is to add "-boot strict=on" to *every* qemu command. When this is done, if any devices have a boot order specified, then QEMU will *only* attempt to boot from those devices that have an explicit boot order, ignoring the rest.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>