Re: [Qemu-devel] SCSI externals [PATCH] revisited

[Chuck Brazie]

>>I was able to apply the patch (almost) cleanly to a November snapshot.
>>The following invocation results in the LSI controller showing up in
>>Windows XP, but the disk(s) do not. Am I missing something?

I missed setting the SCSI device type enum value, sorry. I will make a new 
full
patch with that and with the texi update also. I guess I was too focused
on not messing up the old IDE behavior. :-)

>>qemu -kernel-kqemu -localtime -std-vga \
>>               -disk ide,img=winxp.qcow \
>>               -disk scsi,img=test.qcow

>>It doesn't seem possible to boot from a SCSI disk currently. In fact,
>>there's a check in vl.c to see if there is at least one IDE disk that
>>just dumps the usage output without an error which was rather confusing
>>:-P. I'm thinking that the emulated BIOS doesn't support SCSI yet?

Since SCSI boot is not in there yet, I left it at the default behavior of 
putting up the help text. 

Would it be better to put out a message, then the help text or just the 
message, or leave as is?



Chuck Brazie 
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