[vfio-users] Using a physical disk in QEMU

Patrick O'Callaghan poc at usb.ve
Sat Oct 21 22:36:48 UTC 2017


On Sat, 2017-10-21 at 09:52 -0700, Nick S wrote:
> If that helps, I am using a USB SSD for Win10 and I installed a USB
> bootable version so that I can boot it both under QEMU and directly.
> Really, the only difference is that I put the device alias from
> /dev/disk/by-id/ instead of the file path in the quemu command line (or in
> virsh as the source path).
> 

OK, I did that and the system dual-boots correctly. However the KVM
boot now lands me in the UEFI screen. I've seen this before and got it
to work but it was a while ago and I've lost the reference to the magic
incantation. A hint would be appreciated.

poc




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