libvirt users - Oct 2011 - BIOS Delay

Hi,
Does the libvirt support the bios delay ?
I mean that after set a special number of seconds or minutes, when the domain
starts, the bios will delay after the time I set

Thanks for your time

wade




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On 10/10/2011 02:50 AM, xuteng wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Does the libvirt support the bios delay ?
> I mean that after set a special number of seconds or minutes, when the
domain starts, the bios will delay after the time I set
Is there a qemu option that affects this?  I'm not aware of one, off the 
top of my head, which means that libvirt does not expose one directly. 
If there _is_ such a qemu option, then you can access it via 
<qemu:commandline> xml while waiting for libvirt to implement official 
xml to support this feature.

Taking a step back, I'm not even sure what you are trying to accomplish 
with a delay.  Perhaps it is sufficient if you use virDomainStartFlags 
with VIR_DOMAIN_START_PAUSED (or virsh start --paused) to request that a 
guest be created without running it, then at your choice of delay, 
resume the guest?  But that's not a BIOS delay.

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