[vfio-users] GPU passthrough to Windows problem: BOOT_DEVICE_INACCESSIBLE & general questions on passing physical disks

[Benjamin Slade]

Alex Williamson <alex.l.williamson at gmail.com> writes:

> You're going to need to make the OS drive something that Windows already
> knows how to boot from, IDE or SATA, boot and install the virtio drivers,
> then change it back to virtio-scsi.  What you're doing now is exactly like
> taking your disk from a SATA system and installing them into a system with
> an obscure SCSI controller and expecting it to boot.  It doesn't work that
> way on bare metal either.

Thanks. Can you point me to examples of what the appropriate "--drive
..." lines would look like for passing a physical harddrive through as
IDE or SATA?  (I had tried passing it as IDE earlier, but I'm not sure I
got the syntax right.)


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