Virtio SCSI driver for AmigaOS4.1FE on QEMU

I have upload the latest version of this device driver to https://os4depot.net/?function=showfil ... er/storage/virtioscsi.lha for everyone to try out.

Follow the installation guide in the link and have fun!

@derfs

Amazing work..

@derf

I tested it with Qemu/Pegasos, but it seems that I cannot get this driver to work.

I chose method 1 for the installation.

Method 1: Standard (copy to DEVS:)

1. Copy virtioscsi.device to DEVS: on your AmigaOS system.
2. Reboot.
3. The driver loads automatically at startup and announces all
discovered disks to mounter.library.

I start Qemu with the additional configuration

“-device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0 -drive file=/Volumes/Data/AmigaOs4.1BackUp/GameBackUpHD/hd2SFS.img,format=raw,if=none,id=hd0 -device scsi-hd,drive=hd0,bus=scsi0.0”

It doesn't seem to work for me, and Mounter or MediaToolBox don't show me anything either.

@Maijestro
QEMU/KVM is required. You need to run Qemu on PPC. For example, you would need to install *Linux on your PPC machine and run QEMU there.

@Maijestro

You can try to run mounter manually, but you will have to change the tooltypes to point it to the correct device.

Most of my time has gone into checking it loads as a kickstart module, so DEVS: installation method may have an issue still. I will check over the weekend.

@smarkusg

This was built and tested using QEMU running on Win11 x64.

@derfs
Can't test now, but so you can mount some part of the windows's hdd inside of qemu without needs of "fat32 sticks" mount and transfer in fast manner any amount of data and have it appears in both win32 and qemu at the same time ?

@derfs
Quote:

OK. I misunderstood the description of the “QEMU/KVM” requirements.

I did a little test on Arm64 - Asahi Linux Fedora and macOS.
I checked it on Peg2 and A1 with bboot. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me.
The only line from the AOS4 kernel debug is that the driver is loading. You can see it in the screenshot.



To be sure, I also checked if my qemu compilation works correctly with virtio on A1 with *Linux.
Everything works fine there.



My line: -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0 -drive file=smtest.hdf,if=none,id=hd0 -device scsi-hd,drive=hd0,bus=scsi0.0

*) Don't pay attention to my startup with “nvme”. I checked without it (removed from Kicklayout), clean command lines, etc...
I added the screen because it was my last attempt.

I hope this will be helpful to you.