[vfio-users] Booting from VirtIO disk

[Zycorax Tokoroa]

For what's worth, there are tools (on windows) to rebuild the
installation disk and preinclude drivers. Given I'm still experimenting
and end up reinstalling windows somewhat often, I used this way. I've
used the already mentioned way to add a VirtIO driver later on, but it
doesn't always get picked up correctly, while a "native" install has
never had problems so far.

 - Zycorax



>> 2015-12-28 9:40 GMT+01:00 rndbit <rndbit at sysret.net>:
>>> I bumped into this strange issue - i can no longer boot windows guest
>>> from VirtIO disk. Windows logo shows up briefly and then it throws
>>> INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error. Switching disk to IDE works. Interesting
>>> part is that i actually have installed virtio drivers and virtio disks
>>> added after VM is booted can be accessed without any problem. Since i
>>> can see actual windows logo and error message i suppose it goes half-way
>>> at least and firmware can understand virtio disks just fine. Im out of
>>> ideas here. Does anyone have any clue what could be wrong here?