Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio disk

[Hans de Bruin <bruinjm@xs4all.nl>]

Hans de Bruin wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>  > On 08/10/2009 10:58 PM, Hans de Bruin wrote:
>  >> I am trying to get my qemu vm to boot of 'VIRTIO_BLOCK', but am not
>  >> very successful. I have got two setups:
>  >>
>  >> A two day old qemu tree from git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu
>  >> on a jetway board with a non kvm capable via c7 proc (30W),
>  >>
>  >> and an older qemu-kvm (kvm-88-6-g2ebe329 (10.?)) on a AMD proc (130W)
>  >>
>  >> The AMD boots guests with virtio_block, either with the -kernel switch
>  >> or via the bios. The ViaC7 wil not. Nor the bios nor the kernel detect
>  >> the vitio block device.
>  >>
>  >> Somewhere on the internet I found this qemu-kvm option:
>  >>
>  >>  -drive file=vmdisk1,if=virtio,boot=on
>  >>
>  >> This boot=on, isn't in either of the man pages. qemu doesn't accept
>  >> this option. qemu-kvm needs it to let the bios boot from the
>  >> virtio_block device. I also noticed the qemu-kvm bios has a boot menu
>  >> which can be accessed by F12. qemu has not.
>  >>
>  >
>  > boot=on is in qemu-kvm.git but not in qemu.git yet.
> 
> That is clear, but with or without boot=on, the qemu tree should provide 
> my guest with a blockdevice, which somehow I am missing. For me the 
> solution is simple just switch to the kvm tree.
> 

And loze kqemu, I should be more patient.

-- 
Hans