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[Balazs Gibizer <2097422@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Apparently <boot order> is the more modern and recommended way of doing
the boot ordering but we're not currently using it in that way yet. This
could be a small RFE.

We would use the existing "boot_index" interface for users to indicate
the desired boot order and then internally we will use <boot order>
instead of <boot dev> [2] (what we have today) to honor it.

Because there would be no API change and the changing boot order is
incorrect behavior, we are going to consider this as a bug instead of a
RFE. The <boot order> syntax is available since libvirt 0.8.8 [1], so
this will be backportable without concern for availability of minimum
libvirt version.

[1] https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#specifying-boot-order
[2] https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#bios-bootloader

** Affects: nova
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: libvirt

** Tags added: libvirt

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Title:
  Use <boot order="x"> syntax for devices in XML

Status in OpenStack Compute (nova):
  New

Bug description:
  Apparently <boot order> is the more modern and recommended way of doing
  the boot ordering but we're not currently using it in that way yet. This
  could be a small RFE.

  We would use the existing "boot_index" interface for users to indicate
  the desired boot order and then internally we will use <boot order>
  instead of <boot dev> [2] (what we have today) to honor it.

  Because there would be no API change and the changing boot order is
  incorrect behavior, we are going to consider this as a bug instead of
  a RFE. The <boot order> syntax is available since libvirt 0.8.8 [1],
  so this will be backportable without concern for availability of
  minimum libvirt version.

  [1] https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#specifying-boot-order
  [2] https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#bios-bootloader

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