Control: tags -1 wontfix On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 06:13:05PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: > Trying to quickly start a VM, it’d be great to not use an initrd image, and > also use the Virtio features, for example with the command below:
Please use virtiofs in this case. > qemu-system-x86_64 -M q35 -m 32G -enable-kvm -cpu host -smp cpus=32 > -device virtio-rng-pci -net nic,model=virtio-net-pci -net > user,hostfwd=tcp::22225-:22 -drive > if=virtio,file=/scratch/local2/debian-linux-build.img -vga none -nographic But you don't specify a kernel, so it boots fine using the initramfs within. So this already boots quite fine. I don't see what exactly you mean will be easier. Bastian -- Those who hate and fight must stop themselves -- otherwise it is not stopped. -- Spock, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown