Virtual machines from .vdi images

[Chris Rothrock]

Unfortunately the BIOS configuration on this machine does not have any
options to change (or even see) the actual mode the SATA controller is in
so this path is a bust.  To change track, but still try to load from a
block device, how can I use a USB flash drive as a block device to store
the .VDI image on and read from rather than the SATA controller/hard drive?

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Christian Helmuth <christian.helmuth at ...533......
labs.com> wrote:

> Hello Chris,
>
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 02:31:41PM -0400, Chris Rothrock wrote:
> > I tried this same build on an Intel-based computer (an HP Z240 with an
> > Intel SATA controller) but this one gets even less progress.  The driver
> > reports that there are no AHCI controllers present.  From what I can
> tell,
> > this is probably because the controller is set to IDE mode not AHCI mode
> > but there aren't any options within the BIOS to even change this setting
> so
> > I am up against a wall to get this to work on any platform I have tried.
>
> From the available HP documentation I'd bet the SATA controller comes
> without IDE/legacy mode. But, it supports a hardware RAID mode, so you
> may check in BIOS under "Configure Storage Controller for RAID" for
> "Disable". Also, the HP Z240 is optionally delivered with PCIe SSD
> (i.e., NVMe SSD) which is not supported by ahci_drv as it is a
> completely different interface from AHCI.
>
> If you can make sure that there is a SATA SSD/disk and the controller
> is not in RAID mode, you may provide the output of
>
>   sudo lshw -sanitize -numeric
>   sudo lspci -vvvnn
>
> from inside a Linux running on the workstation.
>
> > [init -> nic_drv] Found: 00:1f.6 8086:15b7 (rev 31) IRQ 0b
> > [init -> nic_drv] no driver found
>
> The 8086:15b7 is a pretty recent I219-LM we just enabled in our NIC
> driver on our staging branch. The patch is pretty simple - you may
> have a look at
>
>   https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/commit/8f7d4732c3f9f53d
> 3057cec08b47d24793f65adb
>
> Regards
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Thank You,

Chris Rothrock
Senior System Administrator
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