Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 01:17:04PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Looking to add these changes, as I've had similar requests from other
> people too. But I'm struggling to get my qemu to actually boot such an
> image! My command line is
>
> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 \
> -drive file=efi-hard-disk.img,if=virtio,format=raw \
> -drive file=/scratch/mirror/debian-cd-test/debian-10.0-SBHACK-amd64-NETINST-1.iso,if=virtio,media=cdrom,boot=on
>
> """
> Booting from DVD/CD...
> Boot failed: Could not read from CDROM (code 0003)
> Booting from Floppy...
> Boot failed: could not read the boot disk
>
> Booting from Hard Disk...
> ...
>
> and then things hang. What am I missing? If I remove the "if=virtio"
> from both drive stanzas, I at least get to the isolinux menu.
Can you try 'mini.iso' from this location?
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/
At OpenBSD we have determined that this image allows us to do
a netinstall of latest Debian in the vmm hypervisor.
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