Re: [Qemu-devel] q35 and ahci

[Alexander Graf]

On 03.07.2012, at 20:38, Jason Baron wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 08:25:52PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 03.07.2012, at 18:16, Jason Baron wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Update on q35 testing with various os's.
>>> 
>>> Linux
>>> -----
>>> -RHEL6.3 installs + runs 
>>> -Fedora 16 install + runs
>>> -Fedora 17 - squashfs errors 
>>>  running on already installed f17 seems ok.
>>> 
>>> Windows
>>> -------
>>> -W7 - install error:
>>> 
>>> "A required cd/dvd device driver is missing. If you have a
>>> driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now.
>>> "
>>> 
>>> Related to the new ahci controller, since if I go back to an
>>> ide conroller it keeps going (albeit the install is *very* slow).
>>> 
>>> So I'm wondering if we need an ide compatibility mode? Or perhaps, there
>>> are other ideas.
>> 
>> Does it work with AHCI and -M pc? It should. Last time I tried it did at 
>> least :).
>> 
>> 
>> Alex
>> 
>> 
> 
> Yes, adding the ahci controller to -M pc, I see a disk drive and the
> controller show up in the device manager. I read in some of the ahci
> commit messages that the cdrom device didn't show up. Did cdrom ever
> work with ahci?

It did on Linux at least, yes. Does it work on Linux for you?


Alex