Re: [Qemu-devel] Q35 FreeBSD install status

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 04:16:35PM +0000, Bret Ketchum wrote:
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> 
>     I’m looking for some guidance with regards to constructing a VM using a
> later version of FreeBSD. In reference to a qemu-devel posting:
> 
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-08/msg03329.html
> 
>     I reran with both 1.6.0.rc3 and 1.6.50 the q35 FreeBSD tests with 9.0, 9.1
> and 10-CURRENT using the following command line:
> 
> qemu-kvm \
> 
>    -hda /home/ehv/images/126802.img -enable-kvm -m 1G -monitor stdio -M q35 \
>     -vnc 127.0.0.1:1 -vga cirrus -monitor stdio \
>     -cdrom /home/ehv/images/FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso -boot order=d
> 
> Note the command line parameter changes necessary for the current versions of
> qemu. I'm running this on a Fedora 17/3.4.4 host and I've tried specifying
> SeaBios 1.7.3 with -bios and -acpitable command line options. Note also that
> both the ide and ahci tests (pc-i440fx-1.6) worked as advertised on this host.
> My trouble is that the bios does not see either the HDD image nor the cdrom.
> 
>     My questions are am I correct to expect the aforementioned q35 test
> (specifically the command line) to work? Am I missing something obvious? Is
> there something to look?
> 
>     Any insight will be appreciated. Thanks.
> 
>  
> 
>     Bret
> 
>  

-cdrom doesn't work with ahci.
there's a new flag that replaces it, I keep forgetting what it is.
Will look it up tomorrow if no one beats me to it.

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