[Xen-devel] floppy boot

[Gerd Knorr <kraxel@xxxxxxx>]

  Hi,

Is there some way to boot vmx machines from a floppy image (or
iso image)?  With "boot=a" in the config file xm complains that
it doesn't know what 'a' is.  With "boot=fda" that isn't the
case, but the sdl window doesn't shows up.  With no boot= line
everything works fine up to the point where the bios tries to
boot the boot sector from the (still empty) virtual hard disk.

Any hints?

  Gerd

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kernel  = '/usr/lib/xen/boot/vmxloader'
memmap  = '/usr/lib/xen/boot/mem-map.sxp'
builder = 'vmx'

name = 'freedos'
memory = 16
restart = 'never'

nics = 0
disk = [ 'file:/dev/xen/freedos,hda,w' ]

device_model = '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'

# qemu
stdvga=1
sdl=1
vnc=0

fda='/vm/freedos/floppy'
boot=fda


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