[Avocado-devel] Windows guest OS without virtio

[Xu Han]

Hi,

On 06/05/2018 10:45 PM, Sergey Bronnikov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running unattended installation of Windows guest OS with command 
> 'avocado run --vt-guest-os Win7.x86_64.sp1 
> unattended_install.cdrom.extra_cdrom_ks.default_install.aio_threads 
> --show-job-log --vt-extra-params machine=q35 cpu=host'. Windows 
> installation starts successfully, but installer cannot find disk - due 
> to absence of virtio driver. How to disable virtio devices and use 
> SATA interface instead?

You can edit the vt configuration file '/etc/avocado/conf.d/vt.conf' and 
set the value of option 'disk_bus' to 'ahci' in case of using 'machine=q35'.

Thanks,
Xu

>
> autotest==0.16.4
> avocado-framework==60.0
> avocado-framework-plugin-vt==57.4
> avocado-virt==39.0
>
> Sergey