[Qemu-devel] Re: SeaBIOS cdrom regression with Vista

[Alexander Graf]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 11/17/2009 03:21 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> qemu-kvm's switch to seabios uncovered a regression with cdrom
>> handling.  Vista x64 no longer recognizes the cdrom, while pc-bios
>> still works.  Installing works, but that uses int 13, not the native
>> driver.  Haven't investigated further yet.
>>
>> Command line:
>>
>> qemu -drive
>> file=/root/kvm-autotest/client/tests/kvm/images/winvista-64.qcow2,if=ide,cache=writeback
>> -m 512 -smp 2 -cdrom
>> /root/kvm-autotest/client/tests/kvm/isos/windows/winutils.iso -snapshot
>>
>> b496fe34317ead61cf5ae019506fadc8f9ad6556 in qemu-kvm.git.
>>
>
> I've temporarily reverted to bochs bios until this issue is resolved.


Make sure my second linuxboot patch (fix linuxboot with bochsbios) is
applied then, as otherwise -kernel will break.


Alex