I just tried to install gentoo in a qemu vm, and it couldn't find the cdrom. The cdrom image is connected to qemu via virtio Appears to be a duplicate or regression of bug 264042. I'd reopen that bug but it appears only devs can change it.
Switching it from virtio to ide in qemu fixed it.
If you put the cdrom on a non-virtio controller, and boot it, is it able to see hard disks you put on virtio? Wondering if this is just a "cdrom on virtio" issue
Failure point: qemu starting: ok getting install cd's boot menu: ok booting guest kernel: ok processing guest initramfs: ok finding the cdrom device: fail (In reply to Ben Kohler from comment #2) > If you put the cdrom on a non-virtio controller, and boot it, is it able to > see hard disks you put on virtio? Wondering if this is just a "cdrom on > virtio" issue yes, the virtio hard disk shows up in the guest as /dev/vda
Created attachment 444476 [details] screenshot of qemu
Probably a problem with the genkernel initramfs.
Just tried to use qemu to install again, this time it appears that the virtio networking card isn't detected.
Can you please be specific about what ISO you used?
Also what qemu command-line you're using (or libvirt XML).
I've installed a "few" gentoo systems on ganeti / libvirt over the last years using virtio disk and net and don't recall any issues.
On closer inspection of the command line generated by aqemu...it appears to be a bug in aqemu.
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-install-amd64-minimal/install-amd64-minimal-20161117.iso
OK, so this isn't a bug in the install-cds.
