> From: pe...@easthope.ca > Debian Wheezy denotes an ATA disk as /dev/sdx. > https://wiki.debian.org/Persistent_disk_names > Likewise for a USB flash store. > > This QEMU assumes my /dev/sda is a SCSI? Certainly a possible explanation. > In my imagination, the Debian port of QEMU recognizes Debian naming > conventions. Perhaps not but a solution using "-disk" will help.
QEMU could easily use a different convention than the OS that it is running on because QEMU doesn't use the name to access the OS's file system. QEMU has to decide "Do I present an IDE interface to the simulated CPU, or do I present a SCSI interface?" > From: pe...@easthope.ca > > You can adjust the disk interface that the virtual machine sees by > > using the if= parameter of the -disk option rather than the -hda > > option. > > Google "site:qemu.org -disk" doesn't pan out. "-disk" is a new option > not yet documented? My mistake, it's "drive", although you've already discovered that. Here's a copy of the basic documentation: http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-doc.html > From: pe...@easthope.ca > Is that plausable? Is the "media=disk" suboption necessary? I'm sure that the simulated drive for a "disk" appears to the guest software differently than the simulated drive for a "cdrom". Dale
