Re: [Qemu-devel] Are -cdrom/-hda (or -drive if=ide) supposed to work in q35?

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 10/06/2014 08:30, Michael Tokarev ha scritto:
> Hello.
>
> The question is: are the drive shortcuts - -cdrom, -hda, -hdb etc -
> supposed to work in -machine q35 too?  Or are they merely ignored?
>
>   qemu-system-x86_64 -machine q35 -cdrom foo.img
>
> this one does not boot, seabios does not see the cdrom.  The same
> applies to
>
>   qemu-system-x86_64 -machine q35 -drive file=foo.img,media=cdrom,if=ide
>
> Should these work?  The fact that they don't, -- is it intentional,
> or a bug?

It should work.  I remember some complications due to AHCI not having 
slaves, but it is a bug.

Paolo