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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

      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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