Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1155403] Re: virtio cdrom detected as hard disk

[Markus Armbruster]

Phillip Susi <address@hidden> writes:

> It seems the installer does not consider virtio devices when doing its
> search.  It also seems the installer does not have the virtio-scsi
> module, and it seems a bit wasteful to go through a layer of scsi
> emulation.

virtio-scsi performs just fine.

> Shouldn't qemu at least warn you that the media=argument does nothing on
> virtio devices instead of silently ignoring it?  Or better yet,
> shouldn't it automatically use virtio-scsi instead?

Incompatible changes.  Doesn't mean we can't make them ever, only we
better be careful.

If we make incompatible changes to if=virtio, we might be better off
going all the way and switching it over to virtio-scsi wholesale.