Re: KVM on ARM64

[Joel Schopp <joel.schopp@amd.com>]

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
> 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.
I am very interested in having a PCI controller on the virt board to be 
able to do some testing of "-device pci-assign" and "-device vfio-pci".  
I noticed that Alvise Rigo (ccd) had sent some patches out to the 
qemu-devel list July 11th that seem to add a generic pci controller.

>
> 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 <mathew.li100@gmail.com> 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?
>>