On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Muted Bytes <mutedby...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I am running recently upgraded Windows 10 VM using kvm in kernel 4.4 and > qemu 2.5.0, with OVMF. Guest OS is installed to a physical HDD and passed > through to guest as a scsi-block drive on virtio-scsi-pci device. Physical > GPU, NIC, USB card, and PCI audio cards are also all being passed through > to guest using vfio-pci. However, I noticed that all of these > passed-through devices, including the virtio-scsi controller, are showing > up as removable devices in the guest. > > Ultimately, I think this is problematic for me because the hard drive > containing guest OS also shows up as removable, and preventing Windows from > doing normal things such as pagefile creation. How to handle this? Is this > normal? > This is normal and in my experience is not a problem. My virtio-scsi controller shows as removable and Win8.1 seems perfectly happy to put a pagefile on it. Isn't this why Windows complains when you don't "safely" remove a device? There is such a thing as swapoff.
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