Re: [Qemu-devel] SCSI externals [PATCH] revisited

[Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 15:42 -0800, Russell Jackson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:02:33AM -0500, Chuck Brazie wrote:
> >
> > Here is a patch that merges the externals for IDE and SCSI with a --disk
> > as Paul requested. Let me know if you want different keywords.
> >
> 
> I was able to apply the patch (almost) cleanly to a November snapshot.
> The following invocation results in the LSI controller showing up in
> Windows XP, but the disk(s) do not. Am I missing something?
> 
> qemu -kernel-kqemu -localtime -std-vga \
> 	-disk ide,img=winxp.qcow \
> 	-disk scsi,img=test.qcow


Is your test.qcow formatted? I had to go into the Windows admin
utilities and format the disk before it became available. 


> It doesn't seem possible to boot from a SCSI disk currently. In fact,
> there's a check in vl.c to see if there is at least one IDE disk that
> just dumps the usage output without an error which was rather confusing
> :-P. I'm thinking that the emulated BIOS doesn't support SCSI yet?


Yep, no support currently for booting off SCSI. 

Thanks,

Dan