USB Mass Storage Devices sometimes have the RMB (removable) bit set in the SCSI INQUIRY response. Thumbdrives tend to have the bit set whereas hard disks do not.
Operating systems differentiate between removable devices and fixed devices. Under Linux, the anaconda installer looks for removable devices. Under Windows, only fixed devices may have more than one partition and AutoRun is also affected by the removable bit. For these reasons, allow USB Mass Storage Devices to override the removable bit: qemu -usb -drive if=none,file=test.img,cache=none,id=disk0 -device usb-storage,drive=disk0,removable=on The default is off. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- hw/usb-msd.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/hw/usb-msd.c b/hw/usb-msd.c index ccdf8ff..11722c7 100644 --- a/hw/usb-msd.c +++ b/hw/usb-msd.c @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ typedef struct { SCSIBus bus; BlockConf conf; SCSIDevice *scsi_dev; + uint32_t removable; int result; /* For async completion. */ USBPacket *packet; @@ -515,7 +516,7 @@ static int usb_msd_initfn(USBDevice *dev) usb_desc_init(dev); scsi_bus_new(&s->bus, &s->dev.qdev, 0, 1, usb_msd_command_complete); - s->scsi_dev = scsi_bus_legacy_add_drive(&s->bus, bs, 0, false); + s->scsi_dev = scsi_bus_legacy_add_drive(&s->bus, bs, 0, !!s->removable); if (!s->scsi_dev) { return -1; } @@ -607,6 +608,7 @@ static struct USBDeviceInfo msd_info = { .usbdevice_init = usb_msd_init, .qdev.props = (Property[]) { DEFINE_BLOCK_PROPERTIES(MSDState, conf), + DEFINE_PROP_BIT("removable", MSDState, removable, 0, false), DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(), }, }; -- 1.7.2.3