On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 18:20, Leek, Jim via <qemu-discuss@nongnu.org> wrote: > > Yes, that great, thanks. I had previously tried > -drive file=dummy.qcow2,if=virtio,format=qcow2 > > That didn't work, but setting if=none seems to work. I'll have to research > why that is, but I'm off and running now. Thanks.
"if=none" says "don't plug this into anything". "if=virtio" says "plug this in as a virtio disk", which won't work because your config doesn't have a virtio bus. thanks -- PMM
