On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:30:41AM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 29/07/09 11:21, Ján ONDREJ (SAL) wrote: > >> And one thing, which can make me happy. When I am trying virtual machines, I >> often reinstall existing one. Then I need to boot from network and after >> installation again from disk. I can't test new gPXE until it will work with >> my F11 kernel, may be it's better with this, but with currently functional >> bootrom I can't boot from disk if network boot is enabled and vice versa. >> If my guest is set to boot from disk (after previous installation) >> and I need to reinstall it, I have to do these steps: >> >> - click details panel (i) >> - click "Boot Options" >> - click on "Boot Device" menu >> - select "Network (PXE)" and confirm (click) >> - click "Apply" >> - click back to guest console >> - click start (play button) > > That's not a virt-manager issue, it's a qemu issue I assume. > > It works for me though - if I have network boot selected that I can > bring up the boot menu with F12 and select the hard disk instead? > > What I suspect you may be referring to is the fact that if you don't > have network boot set as the default then the F12 boot menu doesn't > include the network option - so you can't be set to boot from the hard > disk by default and then choose to boot from network instead using the > boot menu. > > I too find that rather annoying, but as I say it is (I believe) a qemu > issue rather than a libvirt issue. I agree. On a real PC, I can press "F12" key to boot from PXE or to select different like preset boot device. But virt-manager can simplify change to/from PXE, for example: - change input box for boot device to radius buttons - remove "Apply" button and apply automatically (at least if possible) SAL -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list