From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48428) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkqeE-0008ON-Jm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 02:59:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkqeC-0008Mv-2x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 02:59:42 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:4693) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkqeB-0008Mp-RX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 02:59:40 -0400 Message-ID: <51B18568.4050906@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:02:00 +0200 From: Laszlo Ersek MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <201306061710.42928.hahn@univention.de> <51B179E8.80906@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <51B179E8.80906@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFH: boot from virtio cdrom? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Philipp Hahn Cc: Gerd Hoffmann , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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: . Laszlo