Have you passed the appropriate options to QEMU? You *must* use “-drive file=...”. For example “-drive file=/dev/sda”. Read the QEMU manual for details. QEMU does not gives the the guest is access to host devices by default; that would be a very high security risk. On 17/08/17 12:06, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > Debian 9 (Stretch) system > KDE Desktop > MSI970A-G43 motherboard > AMD FX 4350 processor - not overclocked > > Ive been trying to get a virtual machine set up and have run into > problems with both virtualbox and kvm/qemu packages. I have a very messy > project (Elmer fem) and want things completely walled off from my > regular system. So I opted for a virtual machine. > > The kvm/qemu package seems to install properly (no errors). But when I > try to install Debian 9 into it, the installer can't find my two hard > drives sda and sdb. It then ask me to pick from a long list of drivers. > I haven't been able to determine what the drivers should be for my > system. Sda is boot drive, 500 Gb WD160 and the there is a WD10 1 Tb, > ext4 blank drive. Both drives show up on Dolphin so they must be mounted. > > Am I missing some library or something? Any help will be greatly > appreciated. > > Gary R. >
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