Re: [Qemu-devel] ARM virtio-scsi - disks never show up

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:50:02PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 5 September 2013 22:41, Richard W.M. Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I don't know if there is a more appropriate place to ask about
> > ARM / virtio questions.  If there is please let me know.
> >
> > I'm trying to get qemu to boot an ARM appliance.  Everything works up
> > to the point where the kernel loads virtio drivers.  The disks never
> > show up.  The full qemu command line and kernel messages are attached
> > (this is a libguestfs boot test).
> >
> > virtio-blk-device fails the same way.
> >
> > I have no idea where to go next.  Is there a missing kernel module?
> > Missing kernel config?  Non-upstream patches?
> 
> Can you get any virtio device to work at all?
> 
> Does it work if you compile the virtio drivers and
> the virtio_mmio transport into the kernel instead of
> making them modules? That's the obvious difference
> between what you're doing and the configs I've tested with...

It turns out to be due to missing -dtb (device tree) parameter.

Thanks, Rich.

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