[Qemu-discuss] Re (2): running a system installer under QEMU

[peter]

From:   address@hidden (Dale R. Worley)
Date:   Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:58:29 -0400
> If you reboot the virtual machine, does it boot correctly?

Yes.

> You can adjust the disk interface that the virtual machine sees by
> using the if= parameter of the -disk option rather than the -hda
> option.

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/20760
has
"    -disk 
file[,if=type][,index=i][,bus=n][,unit=m][,media=d][,cyls=c,heads=h,secs=s[,trans=t]][snapshot=on|off]

where:

    file is the disk image
    type is the interface type (ide, scsi, floppy, pflash, mtd, sd)
    i is the index of the disk on the interface (0, 1, 2, ...)
    n is the bus number of the given type
    m is the unit number on the the given bus
    d is the type of the media (disk, cdrom)"

Rather than a disk image I aim for a real device. 
sudo qemu-system-i386 -boot a -fda /home/user/Oberon0.Dsk -disk 
/dev/sdd,if=ide,media=disk -vga std

Is that plausable?  Is the "media=disk" suboption necessary?

Thanks,                                       ...  Peter E.

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