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 >
