Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/6] "bootonceindex" property

[Gerd Hoffmann]

   Hi,

> The short answer: emulating real hardware.
> 
> Since real HW has this capability, there exist certain
> auxiliary systems that are built on it. Having similar
> semantics available in QEMU allows me to build a virtual
> machine that works with these systems without modifying
> them in any way.

Ok, that is reason enough.

Adding bootonceindex everywhere doesn't look like the best plan to me
though.  Possibly we can pimp up bootindex in a backward-compatible way?
Something like bootindex=<normal>[.<once>] ?

cheers,
  Gerd