How to pass a ZFS disk to qemu running on Windows 11 with FreeBSD 14 as guest os

grill_gus

I've virtualized the img file (created by dd'ing a real FreeBSD 14.0 installation) on Windows 11 wth qemu-kvm for Windows using the Hyper-V hypervisor. The parameters that I've used are the following ones : I:\OS\qemu\FreeBSD\qemu\qemu-system-x86_64w.exe -accel whpx -machine q35 \ -cpu kvm64,hv_relaxed,hv_time,hv_synic -m 8G \ -device vmware-svga,id=video0,vgamem_mb=16,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1 \ -audiodev dsound,id=snd0 -device ich9-intel-hda \...

Originally asked by john_connor on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Windows raw disk device path is \.\PhysicalDrive[x], where x is disk device number starting from 0. You can check your disk device numbers with Disk Management MMC Snap-in or with diskpart using list disk command. In your case you should use following command-line: I:\OS\qemu\FreeBSD\qemu\qemu-system-x86_64w.exe -accel whpx -machine q35 \ -cpu kvm64,hv_relaxed,hv_time,hv_synic -m 8G \ -device vmware-svga,id=video0,vgamem_mb=16,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1 \ -audiodev dsound,id=snd0 -device ich9-intel-hda \ -device hda-duplex,audiodev=snd0 \ -hda "I:\OS\qemu\FreeBSD\FreeBSD-ada1p2-qemu.img" -rtc base=localtime \ -device nec-usb-xhci,id=usb -device usb-tablet -device usb-kbd \ -smbios type=2...

Full answer by E. Vezne: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/1839699 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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