On 16/04/2015 16:26, Peter Teoh wrote: > > You can use PCI passthrough and let the guest use the whole SATA bus, if > you have another way to access other disks on the same bus (e.g. boot > from a USB stick or access the filesystems on NFS). > > Or you can use SCSI passthrough and pass the /dev/sdX device to the > guest, e.g. > > -device virtio-scsi-pci > -drive if=none,file=/dev/sdb,id=sdb,cache=none,format=raw > -device scsi-block,drive=sdb > > The guest then will talk to the host's ATA->SCSI translation layer, and > will be able to send raw ATA commands via the ATA PASSTHROUGH command. > > Thank you very much, that answer saved me many hours of search/trial and > errors. And seems to work for now...need more testing.
FWIW, which one did you use and what kind of command did you need? Paolo
