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

[Alex Williamson]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Benjamin Slade <slade at jnanam.net> wrote:

>
> 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.)


Use virt-manager, even if you don't manage the VM with libvirt, create the
setup you want and copy the options from the log file.
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