Re: [Qemu-devel] q35 and ahci

[Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 08:25:52PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 03.07.2012, at 18:16, Jason Baron wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Update on q35 testing with various os's.
> > 
> > Linux
> > -----
> > -RHEL6.3 installs + runs 
> > -Fedora 16 install + runs
> > -Fedora 17 - squashfs errors 
> >   running on already installed f17 seems ok.
> > 
> > Windows
> > -------
> > -W7 - install error:
> > 
> > "A required cd/dvd device driver is missing. If you have a
> > driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now.
> > "
> > 
> > Related to the new ahci controller, since if I go back to an
> > ide conroller it keeps going (albeit the install is *very* slow).
> > 
> > So I'm wondering if we need an ide compatibility mode? Or perhaps, there
> > are other ideas.
> 
> Does it work with AHCI and -M pc? It should. Last time I tried it did at least :).
> 
> 
> Alex
> 
> 

Yes, adding the ahci controller to -M pc, I see a disk drive and the
controller show up in the device manager. I read in some of the ahci
commit messages that the cdrom device didn't show up. Did cdrom ever
work with ahci?

Thanks,

-Jason