On May 30, 2008 02:50 pm you wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Freddie Cash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Am I missing something simple, or can you only boot off virtual IDE
> > drives?
>
> add 'boot=on' to the drive specification:
>
> /usr/bin/kvm -name webmail -daemonize -localtime -usb -usbdevice
> tablet -smp 1 -m 2048 -vnc :05 -pidfile /var/run/kvm/webmail.pid -net
> nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:00:00:05,model=rtl8139 -net tap,ifname=tap05
> -boot c -drive
> index=1,media=disk,if=scsi,file=/dev/mapper/vol0-webmail--storage
> -drive index=0,media=disk,if=scsi,file=/dev/mapper/vol0-webmail,boot=on
>
> that got me for a long time too.

A few minutes after sending this, I found, buried deep down in my google 
results, this non-documented option.  :)  Spent a good hour reading 
through mailing list archives, forums posts, and various websites before 
finding this.

Anyone willing to update the man pages for qemu and/or kvm-qemu to 
document this option?  :D

-- 
Freddie Cash
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