From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44095) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sm87C-0006S5-RT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:46:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sm87A-0000SO-Ux for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:46:22 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:22790) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sm87A-0000Ql-MG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:46:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 14:46:17 -0400 From: Jason Baron Message-ID: <20120703184617.GF32441@redhat.com> References: <20120703161628.GB32441@redhat.com> <8E6DCE94-DB2B-43B6-8EFE-765E428939E7@suse.de> <20120703183840.GE32441@redhat.com> <77F44C8A-408F-435A-BDDC-C7715C1759A0@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <77F44C8A-408F-435A-BDDC-C7715C1759A0@suse.de> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] q35 and ahci List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: mst@redhat.com, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, yamahata@valinux.co.jp, juzhang@redhat.com, anthony@codemonkey.ws 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