From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: usage of virtio-blk-device etc (microvm?)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 06:33:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210831043309.apcno22at6hfk6so@sirius.home.kraxel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95fd8301-713e-fa88-36e0-072860b88e63@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
Hi,
> In particular, I wasn't able to have a hdd in the virtual machine
> using virtio-blk-device like this:
>
> -drive file=foo,if=none,id=drv -device virtio-blk-device,drive=drv
>
> What modules/options are needed within linux guest to see such a
> drive? By loading just virtio-blk module (which loads all its
> dependencies) the drive isn't becoming available, like it usually
> happens after loading virtio-pci with the pci version of virtio-blk.
You need both virtio-mmio.ko (transport) and virtio-blk.ko (device).
> Also, is there a way to use virtio-blk-device with, say, q35 machine
> type?
No.
take care,
Gerd
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