From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wei Huang Subject: Re: KVM on ARM64 Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 13:06:09 -0500 Message-ID: <53E3C011.4010406@redhat.com> References: <53E0E7AE.90402@amd.com> <53E25C45.9050603@amd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Joel Schopp , KVM To: Christoffer Dall , Mathew Li Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:49290 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751275AbaHGSGV (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2014 14:06:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/07/2014 12:53 PM, Christoffer Dall wrote: > Currently we only model a virtual machine board (the -machine > type=virt parameter) which has a UART, a flash, an RTC, and a bunch of > virtio-mmio channelse. > > Once we either emulate a real aarch64 board (with whatever peripherals > it may have) or add a PCI controller to the virt board, then you can Out of curiosity, any particular of PCI controller in your mind? I have seen people using Synopsys IP in real SOC; but wonder if anything else? -Wei > choose whatever storage the real board has or start doing interesting > things like plugging in a scsi controller to your PCI controller on > the virt board or whatever else you desire. > > But as Joel points out, VirtIO is likely to get you the best > performance and is the most convenient method. > > -Christoffer > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Mathew Li wrote: >> Great. VirtIO works for me. Thanks for your help folks! >> >> Is there is any other way to add virtual disk, more like a traditional >> disk to qemu-system-aarch64? For example IDE disk or SATA disk or >> maybe as a SCSI disk? >> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >