From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: disk=['file://..xvda'] not working for boot disks
	anymore?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:54:21 -0500
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 03:59:09PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 01/22/2016 03:54 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >Hey,
> >
> >This parameter
> >disk = ['file:/root/sol.dd,xvda,w','file:/root/sol-11_2_15_5_1-text-x86.iso,xvdb:cdrom,r']
> >
> >works with qemu-traditional, but if I try with qemu-xen it
> >does not find the disk:
> >
> >(d15) [2016-01-22 20:50:03] enter handle_19:
> >(d15) [2016-01-22 20:50:03]   NULL
> >(d15) [2016-01-22 20:50:03] Booting from ROM...
> >(d15) [2016-01-22 20:50:03] Booting from c980:0361
> >
> >while with qemu-traditional:
> >
> >(d14) [2016-01-22 20:43:15] Bochs BIOS - build: 06/23/99
> >(d14) [2016-01-22 20:43:15] $Revision: 1.221 $ $Date: 2008/12/07 17:32:29 $
> >(d14) [2016-01-22 20:43:15] Options: apmbios pcibios eltorito PMM
> >(d14) [2016-01-22 20:43:15]
> >(d14) [2016-01-22 20:43:15] ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk (12288 MBytes)
> >(d14) [2016-01-22 20:43:15]
> >(d14) [2016-01-22 20:43:15]
> >(d14) [2016-01-22 20:43:15]
> >(d14) [2016-01-22 20:43:15] Press F12 for boot menu.
> >(d14) [2016-01-22 20:43:15]
> >(d14) [2016-01-22 20:43:15] Booting from Hard Disk...
> >
> >It does work with Xen 4.4, but that is ancient. I hadn't yet
> >tried Xen 4.5 nor 4.6.
> >
> >I am hoping one of you knows exactly which commit might have made
> >this change?
> >
> >Note that the name is 'xvda', not 'hda'. Thanks!
> 
> Probably this one:
> 
> http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-10/msg01529.html

You are good.

That was it.

CC-ing Anthony - are you OK if the patch was reverted?

> 
> 
> -boris