Re: [Xen-devel] 4.7 qemu regression: HVM guests fail to boot from xvda

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With staging-4.6 this domU boots from xvda, qemu creates an emulated
> disk. With staging no disk is found, unless the name is changed to hda.
> Looks like qemu-2.6 does not handle xvda either.

This was intentional; see this thread:

https://marc.info/?i=<1444820717-25565-1-git-send-email-anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>

The idea was to make it possible to create an HVM guest with no
emulated disks for guest booting with OVMF which contains PV drivers.

 -George

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