Emulating IDE drive for a virtual machine?

[konaya]

I'd like to run android-x86 in a virtual machine. It supports neither the AHCI nor the VirtIO option, but needs the IDE option supported by qemu yet omitted in the middleware.

So I guess my questions are, in descending order of personal preference:

1. Is there a way to specify IDE in the user interface which I'm missing?
2. Has anyone managed to run android-x86 persistently in a TrueNAS SCALE virtual machine? How?
3. Is there a way to specify custom parameters for a given virtual machine?
4. Is there a way to specify custom run parameters for the qemu binary for a given virtual machine?
5. Is there a way to bypass the middleware altogether when it's in the way?

 

[StevenE]

You can edit the VM definition to set the disk to IDE, but using the UI to start/stop the VM will result in reverting it back to AHCI.

I also have a number of legacy VMs where I need IDE support so this is a bit frustrating.

 

[StevenE]

I'm trying to raise a Jira ticket for this request but I'm getting an error

• User doesn't have the 'Close Issues' permission

 

[StevenE]

I've now raised this as a bug rather than a feature request

• https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-127959