Re: [Qemu-devel] q35 and ahci

[Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 08:41:29PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 03.07.2012, at 20:38, Jason Baron wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 08:25:52PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >> On 03.07.2012, at 18:16, Jason Baron wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> Update on q35 testing with various os's.
> >>> 
> >>> Linux
> >>> -----
> >>> -RHEL6.3 installs + runs 
> >>> -Fedora 16 install + runs
> >>> -Fedora 17 - squashfs errors 
> >>>  running on already installed f17 seems ok.
> >>> 
> >>> Windows
> >>> -------
> >>> -W7 - install error:
> >>> 
> >>> "A required cd/dvd device driver is missing. If you have a
> >>> driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now.
> >>> "
> >>> 
> >>> Related to the new ahci controller, since if I go back to an
> >>> ide conroller it keeps going (albeit the install is *very* slow).
> >>> 
> >>> So I'm wondering if we need an ide compatibility mode? Or perhaps, there
> >>> are other ideas.
> >> 
> >> Does it work with AHCI and -M pc? It should. Last time I tried it did at least :).
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Alex
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > Yes, adding the ahci controller to -M pc, I see a disk drive and the
> > controller show up in the device manager. I read in some of the ahci
> > commit messages that the cdrom device didn't show up. Did cdrom ever
> > work with ahci?
> 
> It did on Linux at least, yes. Does it work on Linux for you?
> 

I meant did a cdrom on the ahci controller configure on windows?

Yes, Linux seems to be happy with the drive and cdrom on the ahci. See
my above test results. (ich9-ahci is the default controller for q35).

Thanks,

-Jason