The latest git has a version of SeaBIOS that supports booting from virtio. This will be included in the 0.13 release.
** Changed in: qemu Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- qemu is unable to boot from virtio drives https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/449958 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: Fix Committed Bug description: This makes the virtio drives feature essentially useless for me ... I don't think I have to provide any more information here, right?