Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives (Solved)

[Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net>]

Hi all

I finally got kvm up and running with Debian 9 installed. Per Bob Weber, 
I seem to have missed one of about 5 must have packages. Once up, I had 
the problem of getting my network printer to work. Cups must be 
installed and to get the proper drivers for my printer, I needed to 
install hplip an hpcups libraries. After that I fired up the web browser 
to localhost:631 and the rest was easy. Now off to Elmer FEM land for 
another F****** learning experience.

Thank everyone for you help and support.

Gary R

On 08/17/2017 10:13 AM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> 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.