From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M5k1B-0007Wv-NG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 13:19:21 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M5k17-0007Vb-4i for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 13:19:21 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60082 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M5k16-0007VU-Vn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 13:19:17 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:47225) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M5k16-0000sH-Gz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 13:19:16 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Sebastian Herbszt" References: <4A0D2721.9000708@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4A0D2721.9000708@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 19:18:35 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: boot from scsi/virtio? List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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