Re: Chaning disks from IDE to SCSI on a Windows VM

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On Tuesday 15 April 2008 12:57:45 am Jun Koi wrote:
> Looks like a problem, however. In his instruction, part 3:
> >3. Shut down the VM.  This time, don't include the new temporary
> > image from step 1 and define your disk(s) as SCSI disks:
> >
> >  qemu-system-x86_64 -m 256 \
> >    -drive file=hda.img,if=scsi,bus=0,index=0,media=disk,boot=off
> > ...
>
> I think above should have "boot=on", rather than "boot=off".
> Otherwise, you cannot boot from scsi disk, right?

You are right!  That's what happens when you copy and paste code. :-)

> I tried the above instructions with WinXP, but WinXP cannot boot
> successfully: it stops somewhere in the middle, and hang there.

I tried it on a vanilla install of WinXP SP2, no updates.  I guess I 
should try using a fully patched version of XP and see what that does.  
In step #2, did the Device Manager show the SCSI disk?

-- 
Alberto Treviño
alberto@xxxxxxx
Testing Center
Brigham Young University

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