Basically the 'boot=on' boot selection device is something present in
KVM but not in upstream QEmu, as a result if we boot a QEmu domain
without KVM acceleration we must disable boot=on ... even if the front
end kvm binary expose that capability in the help page.
* src/qemu/qemu_conf.c: in qemudBuildCommandLine if -no-kvm
is passed, then deactivate QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_BOOT
* 2. The qemu binary has the -no-kvm flag
*/
if ((qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_KVM) &&
- def->virtType == VIR_DOMAIN_VIRT_QEMU)
+ def->virtType == VIR_DOMAIN_VIRT_QEMU) {
disableKVM = 1;
+ /*
+ * do not use boot=on for drives when not using KVM since this
+ * is not supported at all in upstream QEmu.
+ */
+ if (qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_BOOT)
+ qemuCmdFlags -= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DRIVE_BOOT;
+ }
+
/* Should explicitly enable KVM if
* 1. Guest domain is 'kvm'
* 2. The qemu binary has the -enable-kvm flag