Oh, scsi boot actually works. You need 0.12.4+ or unstable. Also http://www.lsi.com/DistributionSystem/AssetDocument/files/support/ssp/sdms/Bios/lsi_bios.zip Unpack the downloaded zip to get the option rom. Then boot qemu with -option-rom 8xx_64.rom
-- qemu 0.11.50: Guest boot failed when the drive interface is scsi https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485251 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in Kernel Virtual Machine: New Status in QEMU: Invalid Bug description: When tried to boot the rhel5.4 guest with the below mentioned options, /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=test_rhel5.4.raw,if=scsi -m 512 -enable-kvm Boot failed with following error, ------------------------------------- Booting from Hard Disk... Boot failed: could not read the boot disk Booting from Floppy... Boot failed: could not read the boot disk Booting from CD-Rom... Boot failed: could not read from CDROM (code 0003) No bootable device. -------------------------------------- This guest was installed with following options, # /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=test_rhel5.4.raw,if=scsi -net nic,model=rtl8139 -cdrom /var/RHEL5.4-Server-20090819.0-i386-DVD.iso -m 512 -enable-kvm Warning: vlan 0 is not connected to host network lsi_scsi: error: ORDERED queue not implemented lsi_scsi: error: ORDERED queue not implemented lsi_scsi: error: ORDERED queue not implemented lsi_scsi: error: ORDERED queue not implemented lsi_scsi: error: ORDERED queue not implemented lsi_scsi: error: ORDERED queue not implemented lsi_scsi: error: ORDERED queue not implemented lsi_scsi: error: ORDERED queue not implemented # uname -a Linux mx3650b.in.ibm.com 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Nov 7 21:11:14 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Machine: x3650 Steps to reproduce: 1. Install a guest with scsi drive interface 2. After the install boot the guest with scsi interface. We can see the above mentioned boot failure.
