From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46646) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Smmhw-0003iU-Go for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:07:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Smmhp-00043Z-T2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:07:00 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:3384) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Smmhp-00042f-Jq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:06:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 10:06:49 -0400 From: Jason Baron Message-ID: <20120705140649.GA23433@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> <20120703184617.GF32441@redhat.com> <20120703203715.GG32441@redhat.com> <18AFE795-B1D9-4378-B55E-1CB1147A786F@suse.de> <20120704012917.GA3074@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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, juzhang@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, yamahata@valinux.co.jp, alex.williamson@redhat.com, anthony@codemonkey.ws On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 10:33:18AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 04.07.2012, at 03:29, Jason Baron wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:54:37PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > >> On 03.07.2012, at 22:37, Jason Baron wrote: > >> > >>> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 08:52:50PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > >>>> On 03.07.2012, at 20:46, Jason Baron wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> 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). > >>>> > >>>> Ah, good. I don't remember tbh. But I suppose since it doesn't work for you, it's broken :). Do you have time to look into it? > >>>> > >>> > >>> I have time to look at it (I'm trying to get q35 working on as many os's > >>> as possible), but I'm far from an expert on ahci. So if you had some > >>> time to look at it, that would be great. My q35 trees are at: > >> > >> Not sure how quickly I can get around to it. I still have quite a bunch of other stuff on my plate atm. > >> > >>> git://github.com/jibaron/q35-qemu.git > >>> git://github.com/jibaron/q35-seabios.git > >>> > >>> With a cmd line such as: > >>> > >>> /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name "f16" -M pc_q35 -m 1G -smp 4 > >>> -hda ./f16.img --enable-kvm -bios /q35-seabios/out/bios.bin > >>> -acpitable file=/q35-seabios/out/q35-acpi-dsdt.aml -monitor stdio > >> > >> I suppose you mean something that actually does -cdrom? > > > > oops. yes. here's an example: > > > > /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -boot c -name "w7" -m 6G -smp 4 -M > > pc_q35 -cdrom > > /images/isos/en_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_677332.iso > > -hda /images/w7-q35.img -vnc :5 --enable-kvm -bios > > /root/seabios/seabios/out/bios.bin -acpitable > > file=/root/seabios/seabios/out/q35-acpi-dsdt.aml -monitor stdio > > > >> > >>> The error I run into is: > >>> > >>> "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. > >>> " > >> > >> Well, that only tells us that it couldn't find its own CD drive. The question is why. Some ATA logs would be nice here :). > >> > > > > I've posted a log at: http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/qemu/log > > > > Created with the debug patch below. > > This log is using ATA for the disk as well, heavily cluttering the log. Please use virtio for the disk so we can isolate the commands that actually go to the cdrom. > > > Alex > > Log is still pretty large. But hopefully this one is more useful: http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron//qemu/windows-ahci-boot-virtio-disk Please let me know if anything else would be helpful. Thanks, -Jason