[Qemu-discuss] -drive options for a CF card; was "running a system installer under QEMU"

[peter]

From:   Dale R. Worley
Date:   Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:58:29 -0400
> 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.

OK, a CF card is available here to test the installation.
Connecting it to the host by a USB adapter is easiest.  If 
necessary a CF-IDE adapter can be used.  Which is the best bet?

-drive has about 15 sub-options and this is my tenative command.

sudo qemu-system-i386 -fda Oberon0.Dsk \
 -drive file=/dev/sdd,if={ide,virtio?},media=disk,cache=none \
 -vga std -boot a

Any chance that vertio will work better than ide?  Any further 
advice?

Thanks,                 ... Peter E.

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