[pve-devel] [RFC PATCH qemu-server] fix bootdisk_size for new bootorder config scheme

Thomas Lamprecht t.lamprecht at proxmox.com
Thu Apr 22 22:02:59 CEST 2021


On 08.03.21 14:43, Dominik Csapak wrote:
> Previously, we ever only had a single boot *disk*, while possibly
> having multiple cdroms/nics in the boot order
> 
> e.g. the config:
> 
>  boot: dnc
>  bootdisk: scsi0
>  ide0: media=cdrom,none
>  scsi0: xxx
>  net0: ...
> 
> would return the size of scsi0 even though it would first boot
> from cdrom/network.
> 
> When editing the bootorder with such a legacy config, we
> remove the 'bootdisk' property and replace the legacy notation
> with an explicit order, but we only search the first disk
> for the size now.
> 
> Restore that behaviour by iterating over all disks in the boot
> order property string until we get one that is not a cdrom
> and has a size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak at proxmox.com>
> ---
> i cannot remember if that change was deliberate, but at least one
> user ran into that:
> 
> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/possible-bug-boot-disk-size-shows-as-0b.85454/
> 

@Stefan, can you, as main author behind the change in question, please give
this a review - thanks!





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