Comment 36 for bug 1725560

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Laszlo Ersek (Red Hat)
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> OK, given that the edk2 commit in question is correct, I asked
> specifically for bug-compat ideas on edk2-devel:
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> http://mid.mail-archive.com/5bf829cb-4517-a579-ba7c-
> <email address hidden>
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> I'll also try to ask IDE and Windows experts for help with figuring out
> what Windows is waiting for, when it's apparently doing nothing.
>
> As a mid-term mitigation / work-around, I suggest using virtio-block or
> virtio-scsi for hard disks, and virtio-scsi for CD-ROMs. Windows (7, 8,
> and 10) can be perfectly well installed from a virtio-scsi CD-ROM to a
> virtio-scsi or virtio-blk hard disk, as long as the guest has *another*
> CD-ROM, using IDE or AHCI, and this CD-ROM presents the virtio-win ISO.
> The only thing the Windows installer *really* has to read from an
> IDE/AHCI CD-ROM is the virtio-scsi/virtio-block driver, all the rest can
> work with virtio.

Great, thank you! I'll monitor that thread.