Re: [Qemu-devel] AHCI problems.

[Alexey Zaytsev]

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 16:00, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 21.05.2011, at 13:46, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
>
>> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 14:26, Alexey Zaytsev <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Ok, so I just installed the current OpenIndiana development build 
>>>> (http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/148/oi-dev-148-text-x86.iso) on AHCI and 
>>>> booted from it. It works just fine for me :).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Confirmed, works after a clean install. I'll see if I can get it into
>>> non-working state.
>>>
>> Ok, I guess I got it. There is some incompatibility between ide and
>> ahci drivers. The first oi instance was installed usigned ide, and
>> won't work with ahci. The second one was installed on ahci, but won't
>> work with ide. This is supposed to work, right?
>
> I'm not sure what Solaris does here, so I frankly have no idea if this is 
> supposed to work. IDE and AHCI are different interfaces, so there's a good 
> chance it simply doesn't work. How about real hardware? Can you take an 
> openSolaris installation, install it using ICH in IDE mode, switch to AHCI 
> mode and it works?

I'll check this, but may take some time. From my understanding, it
should just work, but I might be wrong.