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qm: add section about VM boot order

...and fix outdated example config

Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter@proxmox.com>
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Stefan Reiter 2020-11-24 17:52:04 +01:00 committed by Thomas Lamprecht
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@ -840,6 +840,39 @@ recommended to always use a limiter to avoid guests using too many host
resources. If desired, a value of '0' for `max_bytes` can be used to disable
all limits.
[[qm_bootorder]]
Guest Boot Order
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
QEMU can tell the guest which devices it should boot from, and in which order.
This can be specified in the config via the `boot` property, e.g.:
----
boot: order=scsi0;net0;hostpci0
----
[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-qemu-edit-bootorder.png"]
This way, the guest would first attempt to boot from the disk `scsi0`, if that
fails, it would go on to attempt network boot from `net0`, and in case that
fails too, finally attempt to boot from a passed through PCIe device (seen as
disk in case of NVMe, otherwise tries to launch into an option ROM).
On the GUI you can use a drag-and-drop editor to specify the boot order, and use
the checkbox to enable or disable certain devices for booting altogether.
NOTE: If your guest uses multiple disks to boot the OS or load the bootloader,
all of them must be marked as 'bootable' (that is, they must have the checkbox
enabled or appear in the list in the config) for the guest to be able to boot.
This is because recent SeaBIOS and OVMF versions only initialize disks if they
are marked 'bootable'.
In any case, even devices not appearing in the list or having the checkmark
disabled will still be available to the guest, once it's operating system has
booted and initialized them. The 'bootable' flag only affects the guest BIOS and
bootloader.
[[qm_startup_and_shutdown]]
Automatic Start and Shutdown of Virtual Machines
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@ -1308,12 +1341,12 @@ unique cluster wide.
.Example VM Configuration
----
boot: order=virtio0;net0
cores: 1
sockets: 1
memory: 512
name: webmail
ostype: l26
bootdisk: virtio0
net0: e1000=EE:D2:28:5F:B6:3E,bridge=vmbr0
virtio0: local:vm-100-disk-1,size=32G
----