On Tuesday 29 May 2007 20:45, Ladislav Slezak wrote: > Keith Goggin wrote: > [...] > I created testvm.qcow (20GB) OK but then couldn't execute the next step.. > > > # qemu -sda /home/kg/Desktop/openSUSE-10.3Alpha4-DVD-x86_64.iso -boot d > > > > qemu: invalid option -- '-sda' > > > > Note both my HDD and DVD-ROM (Burner) are SATA II devices. > > > > Does qemu support SATA for both HDD and CDROM? > > No, qemu emulates only IDE (see "man qemu" for list of emulated devices), > you have to use -hda option here...
Silly me I asked the wrong question again. I should have asked could qemu access my SATA hadrware. :-) Thanks anyway and the list may be interested to know I now have a litter of Puppies (5 x puppy-2.16) on my desktop and still have 116MB of free physical memory. ASUS M2A-VM, openSUSE10.3A4, 2GB DDR RAM, Sata2 HDD & Sata2 Burner. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
