Hi, > The short answer: emulating real hardware. > > Since real HW has this capability, there exist certain > auxiliary systems that are built on it. Having similar > semantics available in QEMU allows me to build a virtual > machine that works with these systems without modifying > them in any way.
Ok, that is reason enough. Adding bootonceindex everywhere doesn't look like the best plan to me though. Possibly we can pimp up bootindex in a backward-compatible way? Something like bootindex=<normal>[.<once>] ? cheers, Gerd
