> It seems the installer does not consider virtio devices when doing its search.
That's another bug in the installer then. > it seems a bit wasteful to go through a layer of scsi emulation. Indeed treating the virtio disk similarly to installation from a USB stick is better, but SCSI emulation is actually a very good way to not reinvent the wheel. CD-ROM/DVD-ROM media need a lot of magic (such as subdivision of the medium into tracks, different media formats, etc.) and emulating those in virtio-blk would be even more wasteful. > Shouldn't qemu at least warn you that the media=argument does nothing > on virtio devices instead of silently ignoring it? Yes, that's a legitimate request. > Or better yet, shouldn't it automatically use virtio-scsi instead? No, virtio-scsi is relatively new and not all distros have picked it up yet. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1155403 Title: virtio cdrom detected as hard disk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1155403/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
