Re: [qemu-s390x] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/13] Interactive Boot Menu for DASD and SCSI Guests on s390x

[Collin L. Walling]

On 02/23/2018 08:33 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 23.02.2018 12:50, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote:
> > On 23.02.2018 11:17, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > > On 23.02.2018 09:53, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > > > Hmmm, on my ubuntu 16.04 guest, I get the boot menu with no timeout even if I 
> > > > do not
> > > > specify loadparm or boot menu:
> > > >
> > > > qemu-kvm -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/image.zhyp140,if=none,id=d1 -device 
> > > > virtio-blk-ccw,drive=d1,bootindex=1
> > > I can reproduce this now, too. FWIW: It only happens with
> > > virtio-blk-ccw, not with virtio-scsi-ccw (that's why I did not notice it
> > > first). Collin, can you reproduce this, too?
> > >
> > >   Thomas
> > > The idea is to support the zipl boot menu on ECKD disks (which have a timeout 
> > > by themselves)
> > even without switching the boot menu on. This is to have the same behavior as 
> > one would see
> > on LPAR or z/VM.
> > The issue is that the boot code tries to interpret the program table of SCSI 
> > bootmaps as if
> > a boot menu has been specified.
> Ok, thanks for the explanation, makes sense now.
>
> Collin, could you please spin a v9 with the required changes included?
>
>   Thanks,
>    Thomas
I see.  I overlooked that we could treat a SCSI device as a CCW device.  
The proposed change makes sense.
I'll respin 9 and reply to this chain.

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- Collin L Walling