2012/3/13 Alexander Golec <thejfasi at gmail.com>: > I've merged in Peter Maydell's virtio-mmio code onto the head, and I'm > getting the following exchange: > > root at qemuarm:~# qemu-system-arm -enable-kvm -M vexpress-a15 -cpu cortex-a9 > -drive file=/arm-wheezy.img,if=virtio -kernel /zImage-guest -nographic > -append 'root=/dev/mmcblk0 console=ttyAMA0 rootwait earlyprintk debug' > qemu-system-arm: drive property not set > qemu-system-arm: Initialization of device virtio-blk-mmio failed Yeah, you have to manually point the virtio-mmio at the drive with options like "-drive if=none,file=whatever.img,id=myimg -global virtio-blk-mmio.drive=myimg" I mentioned this in the cover letter for my original RFC patchset but I forgot to point you at that, sorry. Here it is: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-11/msg01870.html (You don't want '-drive if=virtio' because that will create a PCI virtio device.) -- PMM