From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
To: Philipp Hahn <hahn@univention.de>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFH: boot from virtio cdrom?
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:02:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B18568.4050906@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51B179E8.80906@redhat.com>
On 06/07/13 08:12, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 06/06/13 17:10, Philipp Hahn wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm using libvirt to manage my VMs and configured one VM to boot from
>> a CDROM connected via virtio. This does neither work with QEMU-1.1.2
>> nor with QEMU-1.5; neither with SeaBIOS is 1.7.0 nor 1.7.2.
>
> Doesn't work with virtio-blk, virtio-scsi can handle that just fine though.
... just make sure your installer media has immediate support for
virtio-scsi (or, in case of Windows, at least access to a driver disk,
but "virtio-win-0.1-30.iso" in your command line implied that). Example:
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864012>.
Laszlo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-07 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-06 15:10 [Qemu-devel] RFH: boot from virtio cdrom? Philipp Hahn
2013-06-07 6:12 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-06-07 7:02 ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2013-06-09 8:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
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