Hello Ales,
I ran into the same problem and found that the Debian installer doesn't
include the virtio drivers and thus can't use the cdrom or the disk.
I worked around this by bootstrapping the disk via the qemu port and
booting the disk from vmm once it's finally done. Qemu is significantly
slower than vmm, so do get another cup of $BEVERAGE.
I haven't taken the time to contact Debian about this, so it's
probably not yet known to them.
Hope this helps for now.
martijn@
On 08/23/18 12:18, Ales Tepina wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a lenovo T470 running current on which i would like to use vmd
> to run debian for some work specific stuff.
> I'm having trouble installing debian though because the installer
> doesn't seem to find cdrom.
>
> My vm.conf is pretty basic:
> switch "local" {
> interface bridge0
> }
> vm "work" {
> disable
> memory 2G
> cdrom "/home/vm/debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso"
> disk "/home/vm/debian.img"
> interface { switch "local" }
> }
>
> On the debian installer boot menu, i select Install and press TAB to
> edit the menu entry. I remove the "quiet" at the end and append from
> --- onwards so at the end it looks like this:
> (omitted part)/install.amd/vmlinuz desktop=xfce vga=788
> initrd=/install.amd/initrd.gz --- clocksource=tsc console=ttyS0,115200
> noapic
>
> The text based installer starts and i'm able to choose language,
> location and keyboard.
> At the "Detect and mount CD-ROM section, i'm informed that "No common
> CD-ROM drive was detected." and i'm given the option to load CD-ROM
> drivers from removable media. When i select NO the installer gives me
> the option to manually select a CD-ROM module or device. I can choose
> between none and cdrom. The cdrom option just asks me for a device
> like /dev/ cdrom
>
> I tried with debian netboot image - same problem.
>
> I've read Mike Larkin's slides "OpenBSD vmm/vmd Update" and if some of
> you are running linux in vmm (for testing purposes of course) i would
> be gratefull to know how did you manage to get past this problem?
>
> Best regards, Ales
>
