Thanks for the swift reply! "Daniel P. Berrange" <berra...@redhat.com> writes:
> Using -drive with an if=XXX which is anything other than 'none' is the > deprecated / legacy syntax. The way libvirt does AHCI is to use the more > verbose/modern syntax: > > -device ahci,id=ahci0 > -drive > if=none,file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/test/disk0.raw,format=raw,id=drive-sata0-0-0 > -device ide-drive,bus=ahci0.0,drive=drive-sata0-0-0,id=sata0-0-0 Gosh, this is incredibly verbose for normal command line use. Whilst I can see it's nice to have fine control over the detail (and bus/device ids) when you need it, having to write out a command line of that length just to attach a drive is a real pity. I could cook up a patch to do something sane with -drive if=ahci as a more manageable command-line alternative, but is there any chance of this being accepted if that you're describing the compact syntax as deprecated? Cheers, Chris.
