Re: [Qemu-discuss] Q35 chipset

[Dmitry Zamaruev]

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Dmitry Zamaruev
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Latest qemu release introduced support for Q35 chipset officially.
> Is there someone who was able to boot it ?
>
> Following instruction in ChangeLog
> (http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.3#x86) I used most recent SeaBIOS
> version.
>
> Used software versions:
>
> ~/work/qemu $ git describe --tags
> v1.3.0
>
> ~/work/seabios $ git describe --tags
> rel-1.7.1-85-g57174c7
>
> SeaBIOS compiled with default configuration (CONFIG_AHCI=y), qemu
> compiled with following configuration:
> ./configure --target-list=i386-softmmu --enable-debug
>
> I tried to run qemu using following command line:
> ./i386-softmmu/qemu-system-i386 -curses -M q35 -L ./pc-bios/ -bios
> ../seabios/out/bios.bin -acpitable
> file=../seabios/out/q35-acpi-dsdt.aml -hda
> ~/linux-microcore-4.0.2-clean.img
>
> And it fails to boot from hard drive, SeaBIOS output:
> Booting from Hard Disk...
> Boot failed: could not read the boot disk
>
> Is there any tested SeaBIOS revision that could be used to boot new
> q35 chipset ?
>
> wbr,
> Dmitry.

I was able to start qemu with another (new?) syntax:
qemu-system-i386 -M q35 -drive
file=~/linux-microcore-4.0.2-clean.img,if=scsi,bus=0
But shouldn't -hda be an "alias" to this (with -M pc-1.3 it seems an
alias to if=ide,bus=0)