<div dir="ltr">On my SmartOS box I have a one-line script I use for verifying that my USB stick is still bootable after I update the platform image on it.<div>It contains:</div><div><br></div><div>qemu-system-x86_64 -m 4096 -smp 4 -hda /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0 -serial stdio<br></div><div><br></div><div>So you should be able to do that with any raw hard drive you might want to pass through to a virtual machine. (Though I would recommend doing it with the fancier "-drive" syntax and passing it through with a non-ide controller.)</div><div><br></div><div>-Nahum</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Dirk Willems <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dirk.willems@exitas.be" target="_blank">dirk.willems@exitas.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>Hello Nahum,</p>
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    <p>My apologize in the meantime I had found the solution with
      changing the IDE with the virtio, the ide is indeed limit to 4
      devices but now it's running perfectly  thanks ;)</p>
    <p>But another question, do you have experience with adding raw
      devices in KVM ?</p>
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    <p>Thanks in advance.</p>
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    <p>Kind Regards,</p>
    <p><br>
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    <p>Dirk<br>
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    <div class="m_-7310273827140515615moz-cite-prefix">On 08-03-17 16:06, Nahum Shalman wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">I would think that depending on how you're invoking
        QEMU (it looked like the full qemu command line was truncated
        from the output you pasted) it' allocating one of the 4
        available IDE slots to a virtual CDROM. Depending on your guest
        OS you could consider using a different virtual controller for
        the virtual disks, or you might be able to tell qemu not to
        allocate a virtual cdrom drive.
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        <div>If you want to share the full qemu command line being
          invoked I'm happy to take a quick look at it to see if I can
          figure out a simple way to improve it.</div>
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        <div>(I suspect that "cd /KVM_Machines/JDN && bash -x
          ./JDN01_Start-VM.sh" will provide the information needed)</div>
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        <div>-Nahum</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Dirk
          Willems <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dirk.willems@exitas.be" target="_blank">dirk.willems@exitas.be</a>></span>
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              <p>Hello,</p>
              <p>I experience some issue's with too many IDE bus on KVM
                ?</p>
              <p>I'm only allowed to having 3 HDD, when I add the fourth
                HDD I get the following error</p>
              <p>qemu: too many IDE bus</p>
              <p>root@OmniosExitas:/KVM_Machine<wbr>s/JDN#
                ./JDN01_Start-VM.sh <br>
                qemu-system-x86_64: -net vnic,vlan=0,name=net0,ifname=V<wbr>LJDN01,macaddr=2:8:20:2:4b:a4,<wbr>:
                vnic dhcp disabled<br>
                <br>
                qemu-system-x86_64: -net vnic,vlan=1,name=net1,ifname=V<wbr>SJDN01,macaddr=2:8:20:67:1:7c,<wbr>:
                vnic dhcp disabled<br>
                <br>
                qemu: too many IDE bus<br>
                Failed to start VM<br>
                Started VM:<br>
                Public: 127.0.0.1<br>
                10.100.23.86<br>
                ::1/128<br>
                ::/0:5903</p>
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              <p>I just upgrade to <br>
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              <p>root@OmniosExitas:/KVM_Machine<wbr>s/JDN# uname -a<br>
                SunOS OmniosExitas 5.11 omnios-r151020-4151d05 i86pc
                i386 i86pc<br>
                <br>
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              <p> Any suggestions ?</p>
              <p><br>
              </p>
              <p>Thanks in advance.</p>
              <p><br>
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              <p>Kind Regards.</p>
              <p><br>
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              <p>Dirk <br>
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