Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- NEWS.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 34028d59aa..b79f1d0245 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -17,6 +17,22 @@ v10.10.0 (unreleased) * **New features** + * qemu: add multi boot device support on s390x + + For classical mainframe guests (i.e. LPAR or z/VM installations), you always + have to explicitly specify the disk where you want to boot from (or "IPL" + from, in s390x-speak -- IPL means "Initial Program Load"). + + In the past QEMU only used the first device in the boot order to IPL from. + With the new multi boot device support on s390x that is available with QEMU + version 9.2 and newer, this limitation is lifted. If the IPL fails for the + first device with the lowest boot index, the device with the second lowest + boot index will be tried and so on until IPL is successful or there are no + remaining boot devices to try. + + Limitation: The s390x BIOS will try to IPL up to 8 total devices, any number + of which may be disks or network devices. + * **Improvements** * **Bug fixes** -- 2.45.0
