[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?
From: |
Gerd Hoffmann |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable? |
Date: |
Tue, 08 May 2012 07:20:17 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.4) Gecko/20120422 Thunderbird/10.0.4 |
On 05/07/12 20:48, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> I'm trying to experiment with ahci, but can't
> even get my win guest to install drivers for
> it. My usualy procedure is, for an existing
> guest, to add a dummy drive of required type,
> boot the guest, let it to recognize the new
> device and to install drivers needed for it,
> shut it down and change boot drive to the one
> of required type. This worked fine so far,
> eg, for virtio or scsi.
>
> But now I can't use the same technique for ahci.
>
> qemu .. -drive file=winguest.raw,if=virtio \
> -device ahci,id=a \
> -drive file=dummy.raw,id=d,if=none \
> -device ide-disk,bus=a.0,drive=d,bootindex=X
>
> Now, no matter what I use for the bootindex
> parameter, the guest _always_ boots off a dummy
> ahci drive. Even using bootindex=-1 or some huge
> value, the guest still boots from ahci.
>
> The only workaround I found so far is to boot
> using -boot menu=on, and manually choose the
> second entry (which is the virtio image), but
> obviously this is not good at all.
>
> How to let the guest to boot from the virtio
> drive?
bootindex=1 for virtio
bootindex=2 for ahci
ordering in the boot menu then should be virtio first, ahci second, then
everything else (cdrom, nic, ..).
cheers,
Gerd
>
> Thanks,
>
> /mjt
>
- [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?, Michael Tokarev, 2012/05/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?,
Gerd Hoffmann <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?, Michael Tokarev, 2012/05/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?, Gerd Hoffmann, 2012/05/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?, Michael Tokarev, 2012/05/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?, Gleb Natapov, 2012/05/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?, Michael Tokarev, 2012/05/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/05/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] ahci drive: how to make it non-bootable?, Gleb Natapov, 2012/05/10