From: "Sebastian Herbszt" <herbszt@gmx.de>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: boot from scsi/virtio?
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 19:18:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E6EAC18C0FF1447F90EC2178A87B8C93@FSCPC> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A0D2721.9000708@redhat.com>
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Is it possible to boot from non-ide disks? kvm has extboot and the
> -drive ...,boot=on syntax to use it. That isn't in upstream qemu
> though. Is there another way to boot from non-ide disks? Or is extboot
> just not yet merged? Or are there other plans?
>
> cheers,
> Gerd
For LSI53C895A scsi you can try to get the LSI rom (8xx_64.rom) working.
I tried it some time ago, but didn't get too far because the scsi controller
emulation isn't flawless yet. I posted one of the needed patches [1].
[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-12/msg01569.html
- Sebastian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-17 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-15 8:26 [Qemu-devel] boot from scsi/virtio? Gerd Hoffmann
2009-05-15 8:46 ` Laurent Vivier
2009-05-15 8:54 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-05-15 9:08 ` Laurent Vivier
2009-05-17 17:18 ` Sebastian Herbszt [this message]
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