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Re: [Qemu-devel] Using AHCI drives in qemu
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Daniel P. Berrange |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Using AHCI drives in qemu |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:51:23 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:42:56PM +0000, Chris Webb wrote:
> Thanks for the swift reply!
>
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Using -drive with an if=XXX which is anything other than 'none' is the
> > deprecated / legacy syntax. The way libvirt does AHCI is to use the more
> > verbose/modern syntax:
> >
> > -device ahci,id=ahci0
> > -drive
> > if=none,file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/test/disk0.raw,format=raw,id=drive-sata0-0-0
> > -device ide-drive,bus=ahci0.0,drive=drive-sata0-0-0,id=sata0-0-0
>
> Gosh, this is incredibly verbose for normal command line use. Whilst I can
> see it's nice to have fine control over the detail (and bus/device ids) when
> you need it, having to write out a command line of that length just to
> attach a drive is a real pity.
>
> I could cook up a patch to do something sane with -drive if=ahci as a more
> manageable command-line alternative, but is there any chance of this being
> accepted if that you're describing the compact syntax as deprecated?
I'm fairly sure such a patch would still be accepted.
Regards,
Daniel
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