From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [216.205.24.124]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web12.4152.1628662348719016684 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 23:12:29 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=missing; spf=pass (domain: redhat.com, ip: 216.205.24.124, mailfrom: kraxel@redhat.com) Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-211-4nUP1BwMOkKFRqKYOXKfGA-1; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 02:12:26 -0400 X-MC-Unique: 4nUP1BwMOkKFRqKYOXKfGA-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE775760C0; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 06:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sirius.home.kraxel.org (unknown [10.39.193.3]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9C8EB620DE; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 06:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by sirius.home.kraxel.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 125CB180063A; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 08:12:23 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 08:12:23 +0200 From: "Gerd Hoffmann" To: devel@edk2.groups.io, chris.willing@linux.com Cc: James Bottomley , ardb+tianocore@kernel.org, jiewen.yao@intel.com Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 1/1] OvmfPkg PlatformBootManagerLib: Move TryRunningQemuKernel() Message-ID: <20210811061223.prihfxnufka6gzxp@sirius.home.kraxel.org> References: <20210728020232.127332-1-chris.willing@linux.com> <1695D2E15A92C8E7.3876@groups.io> <62f9ffa0-786f-09dd-9546-c4c118fa2a17@linux.com> <1b544f28-b5b9-c08c-bab7-8c1f41778dce@linux.com> <5c85a3f963d1ab7d20e177db9a07a73e82a0eed0.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <7dc3b9d2-5ebb-c261-46b4-658dcbbfd0f4@linux.com> <8286f815812caccbffaa3696f5e884a62ec0a046.camel@HansenPartnership.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.11 Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=kraxel@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi, > I amended my script to have: > > -drive if=none,id=sd00,file=disk.img,format=raw \ > -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi \ > -device scsi-hd,bus=scsi.0,drive=sd00 \ That switches storage from ide to virtio-scsi. Which is a good idea from the performance point of view. Will obviously also workaround ide problems. But might fail now due to virtio-scsi driver not being part of your initrd. take care, Gerd