Re: [Qemu-devel] Q35 FreeBSD install status

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 05:29:06PM +0000, Bret Ketchum wrote:
> 
>     Great thanks. Any idea why the HD does not show?

There's no HD in your command line.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael S. Tsirkin [mailto:mst@redhat.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 12:30 PM
> To: Bret Ketchum
> Cc: Qemu-devel@nongnu.org; kraxel@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Q35 FreeBSD install status
> 
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 04:16:35PM +0000, Bret Ketchum wrote:
> >  
> > 
> >     I’m looking for some guidance with regards to constructing a VM 
> > using a later version of FreeBSD. In reference to a qemu-devel posting:
> > 
> > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-08/msg03329.html
> > 
> >     I reran with both 1.6.0.rc3 and 1.6.50 the q35 FreeBSD tests with 
> > 9.0, 9.1 and 10-CURRENT using the following command line:
> > 
> > qemu-kvm \
> > 
> >    -hda /home/ehv/images/126802.img -enable-kvm -m 1G -monitor stdio -M q35 \
> >     -vnc 127.0.0.1:1 -vga cirrus -monitor stdio \
> >     -cdrom /home/ehv/images/FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso -boot 
> > order=d
> > 
> > Note the command line parameter changes necessary for the current 
> > versions of qemu. I'm running this on a Fedora 17/3.4.4 host and I've 
> > tried specifying SeaBios 1.7.3 with -bios and -acpitable command line 
> > options. Note also that both the ide and ahci tests (pc-i440fx-1.6) worked as advertised on this host.
> > My trouble is that the bios does not see either the HDD image nor the cdrom.
> > 
> >     My questions are am I correct to expect the aforementioned q35 
> > test (specifically the command line) to work? Am I missing something 
> > obvious? Is there something to look?
> > 
> >     Any insight will be appreciated. Thanks.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >     Bret
> > 
> >  
> 
> -cdrom doesn't work with ahci.
> there's a new flag that replaces it, I keep forgetting what it is.
> Will look it up tomorrow if no one beats me to it.
> 
> --
> MST