2008/7/23 Henrik Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I do not know if this is a bug in qemu or the linux kernel sym53c8xx > module (I haven't had the opportunity to test with anything other than > Linux at the moment) but if one starts an qemu instance with -m 4096 > and larger the scsi emulated disk fails in the Linux guest. > > If booting any install cd the /dev/sda is seen as only 512B in size > and if booting an ubuntu 8.04-amd64 with the secondary drive as scsi > it is seen with the correct size but one cannot read not write the > partition table. > > Is there anyone out there that could test say a Windows image on scsi > with 4GB or more of RAM and see if it works or not? If so it could be > the linux driver that is faulty. > > /Henrik Holst
I've just tried with OpenBSD 4.3 and even with -m 256 it failed miserable with the scsi driver. qemu wrote a million lines of: "lsi_scsi: error: Reselect with pending DMA" to the console. The same problem occured with -no-kvm so this seams to be a qemu related problem. Has scsi always been this broken? Since IDE can only handle a total of 4 drives and virtio is only available to linux guests this makes KVM somewhat useless at the moment, arghh. /Henrik Holst -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
