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

[Peter Maydell]

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...

-- PMM