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To: Hans de Bruin <bruinjm@xs4all.nl>
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On 08/10/2009 10:58 PM, Hans de Bruin wrote:
> I am trying to get my qemu vm to boot of 'VIRTIO_BLOCK', but am not 
> very successful. I have got two setups:
>
> A two day old qemu tree from git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu
> on a jetway board with a non kvm capable via c7 proc (30W),
>
> and an older qemu-kvm (kvm-88-6-g2ebe329 (10.?)) on a AMD proc (130W)
>
> The AMD boots guests with virtio_block, either with the -kernel switch 
> or via the bios. The ViaC7 wil not. Nor the bios nor the kernel detect 
> the vitio block device.
>
> Somewhere on the internet I found this qemu-kvm option:
>
>  -drive file=vmdisk1,if=virtio,boot=on
>
> This boot=on, isn't in either of the man pages. qemu doesn't accept 
> this option. qemu-kvm needs it to let the bios boot from the 
> virtio_block device. I also noticed the qemu-kvm bios has a boot menu 
> which can be accessed by F12. qemu has not.
>

boot=on is in qemu-kvm.git but not in qemu.git yet.

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