On 03.07.2012, at 22:37, Jason Baron wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 08:52:50PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: >> On 03.07.2012, at 20:46, Jason Baron wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 08:41:29PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: >>>> On 03.07.2012, at 20:38, Jason Baron wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 08:25:52PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: >>>>>> On 03.07.2012, at 18:16, Jason Baron wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Update on q35 testing with various os's. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Linux >>>>>>> ----- >>>>>>> -RHEL6.3 installs + runs >>>>>>> -Fedora 16 install + runs >>>>>>> -Fedora 17 - squashfs errors >>>>>>> running on already installed f17 seems ok. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Windows >>>>>>> ------- >>>>>>> -W7 - install error: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "A required cd/dvd device driver is missing. If you have a >>>>>>> driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now. >>>>>>> " >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Related to the new ahci controller, since if I go back to an >>>>>>> ide conroller it keeps going (albeit the install is *very* slow). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So I'm wondering if we need an ide compatibility mode? Or perhaps, there >>>>>>> are other ideas. >>>>>> >>>>>> Does it work with AHCI and -M pc? It should. Last time I tried it did at >>>>>> least :). >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Alex >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Yes, adding the ahci controller to -M pc, I see a disk drive and the >>>>> controller show up in the device manager. I read in some of the ahci >>>>> commit messages that the cdrom device didn't show up. Did cdrom ever >>>>> work with ahci? >>>> >>>> It did on Linux at least, yes. Does it work on Linux for you? >>>> >>> >>> I meant did a cdrom on the ahci controller configure on windows? >>> >>> Yes, Linux seems to be happy with the drive and cdrom on the ahci. See >>> my above test results. (ich9-ahci is the default controller for q35). >> >> Ah, good. I don't remember tbh. But I suppose since it doesn't work for you, >> it's broken :). Do you have time to look into it? >> > > I have time to look at it (I'm trying to get q35 working on as many os's > as possible), but I'm far from an expert on ahci. So if you had some > time to look at it, that would be great. My q35 trees are at:
Not sure how quickly I can get around to it. I still have quite a bunch of other stuff on my plate atm. > git://github.com/jibaron/q35-qemu.git > git://github.com/jibaron/q35-seabios.git > > With a cmd line such as: > > /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name "f16" -M pc_q35 -m 1G -smp 4 > -hda ./f16.img --enable-kvm -bios <path>/q35-seabios/out/bios.bin > -acpitable file=<path>/q35-seabios/out/q35-acpi-dsdt.aml -monitor stdio I suppose you mean something that actually does -cdrom? > The error I run into is: > > "A required cd/dvd device driver is missing. If you have a > driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now. > " Well, that only tells us that it couldn't find its own CD drive. The question is why. Some ATA logs would be nice here :). Alex
