On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 03:19:26PM +0200, Peter Lieven wrote: > Hi Qemu/KVM Devel Team, > > if I create a VM with more than 2 harddisks and a CDROM Image and > want to boot from CDROM this is not working. > From my understanding at least 3 IDE Drives + 1 IDE CDROM should work. > > cmdline: > /usr/bin/qemu-kvm-0.12.4 -net none -drive > file=/dev/sdb,if=ide,boot=on,cache=none,aio=native -drive > file=/dev/sdc,if=ide,boot=off,cache=none,aio=native -drive > file=/dev/sdd,if=ide,boot=off,cache=none,aio=native -m 256 -cpu > qemu64,model_id='Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz' > -monitor tcp:0:4001,server,nowait -vnc :1 -name 'ide-test' -boot > order=dc,menu=on -cdrom > /home/kvm/cdrom/root/KNOPPIX_V6.2.1CD-2010-01-31-DE.iso -k de > -pidfile /var/run/qemu/vm-153.pid -mem-path /hugepages > -mem-prealloc -rtc base=utc,clock=vm -no-kvm-irqchip -usb > -usbdevice tablet > > SEABIOS shows error: Could not read from CDROM (code 0001) Your third drive conflicts with the cdrom. Try adding ",index=3" to the definition of sdd. Qemu should probably handle this better, but the above works for me. -Kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
