From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ahci: add -drive support
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:42:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FFE8DFE.8090606@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3obnlwfz7.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org>
Hi,
> What I'd like to avoid is casual users setting up new guests with our
> shiny new q35 board getting their IDE drives connected to some slow, old
> controller just because they haven't discovered that if=ide doesn't cut
> it anymore, and they need to use if=ahci now.
That will not work. ahci has no such thing as master/slave. Each ahci
port (modeled as ide bus in qemu for ata emulation code reuse reasons)
accepts one drive only.
Thus -drive if=ide,bus=x,unit=1,file=... will not work with ahci.
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-12 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1340714974-25489-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de>
2012-07-09 8:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ahci: add -drive support Markus Armbruster
2012-07-09 9:11 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-07-09 9:13 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-09 9:27 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-07-09 9:36 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-09 9:41 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-07-09 9:44 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-09 9:46 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-07-09 9:52 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-07-09 10:02 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-07-09 10:03 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-07-09 10:05 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-07-09 10:14 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-07-09 11:05 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-07-09 11:06 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-07-09 11:08 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-09 11:19 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-07-09 11:22 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-11 22:33 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-12 8:17 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-07-12 8:23 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-12 11:09 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-07-12 11:28 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-12 11:42 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-07-12 11:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-12 8:42 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2012-07-12 10:58 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-07-12 11:50 ` Alexander Graf
2012-07-12 14:39 ` Markus Armbruster
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