On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 11:03 -0600, Bradley Davis wrote: > I couldn't get it to work, so I made sure my boot drive was always on > the host systems. I did this with FreeNAS and passed through a M1015 > - it was setup in passthrough mode so the VM which the card was > assigned could see SMART data. > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Mark Billington <billington.mark@gma > il.com> wrote: > > I wish to boot from a passed through HDD controller using > > libvirt\Qemu. I can run through OS installations fine (both windows > > and linux), but on reboot at the point it would boot from the HDD, > > it doesn't find a boot device. Is there a trick to get this > > working? an extra string I need to add into the XML or Qemu command > > when passing through the device? > >
If you are booting with OVMF, then it doesn't support booting from a real SATA device last I checked. There are some unofficial patches out there somewhere for an old version that are supposed to allow that, but I tried them and never had any useful results. _______________________________________________ vfio-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users
