Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 for-2.4 3/3] hw/arm/virt: Make block devices default to virtio

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 25 June 2015 at 08:40, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>
>> Now we have virtio-pci, we can make the virt board's default block
>> device type be IF_VIRTIO. This allows users to use simplified
>> command lines that don't have to explicitly create virtio-pci-blk
>> devices; the -hda &c very short options now also work.
>>
>> This means we also need to set no_cdrom to avoid getting a
>> default cdrom device -- this is needed because the virtio-blk
>> device will fail if it is connected to a block backend with
>> no media, which is what the default cdrom device typically is.
>> Providing a cdrom with media via -cdrom will still work.
>
> It'll create a virtio-blk device with non-removable medium, won't it?

Yes, I think so. Mostly I cared that -cdrom won't make qemu die with a
confusing error.

(Without no_cdrom, qemu dies even if you don't say -cdrom, because
of the default empty drive.)

>> The command line will be changed to include 'if=none', as the
>
> will have to be changed

Yes.

-- PMM