From patchwork Fri Apr 16 20:41:37 2010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Bruce Rogers X-Patchwork-Id: 93205 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by demeter.kernel.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o3GL1p9S022636 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:01:52 GMT Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932471Ab0DPVBt (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:01:49 -0400 Received: from sinclair.provo.novell.com ([137.65.248.137]:38885 "EHLO sinclair.provo.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932414Ab0DPVBt convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:01:49 -0400 X-Greylist: IP, sender and recipient auto-whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (demeter.kernel.org [140.211.167.41]); Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:01:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: delayed 1206 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:01:49 EDT Received: from INET-PRV-MTA by sinclair.provo.novell.com with Novell_GroupWise; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:41:41 -0600 Message-Id: <4BC877210200004800093579@sinclair.provo.novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 8.0.1 Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:41:37 -0600 From: "Bruce Rogers" To: Subject: [PATCH] document boot option to -drive parameter Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index c5a160c..fbcf61e 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ an untrusted format header. This option specifies the serial number to assign to the device. @item addr=@var{addr} Specify the controller's PCI address (if=virtio only). +@item boot=@var{boot} +@var{boot} is "on" or "off" and allows for booting from non-traditional interfaces, such as virtio. @end table By default, writethrough caching is used for all block device. This means that