[ULTMOS] How is Virtio Storage Used? No virtio storage bus

[erenoglu]

Describe the Issue

I created a MacOS image using your script and works nicely. Thanks a lot.
It looked a bit slow, so I checked the configuration file. I can see that the disk is attached as a SATA disk as below:
<target dev="sdb" bus="sata" rotation_rate="1"/>
while my other virtual machines using Virtio for storage has something like this:
<target dev="vda" bus="virtio"/>

So, I'm confused on how the virtio storage is used. In feature matrix, it states Sequoia comes with virtio storage.

Reproduce the Issue

Create a new autopilot config, Virtio storage option is not presented. SATA disk can be created.

Expectation

virtio storage driver to be supported & added to the virtual machine. It's much faster compared to SATA

Screenshots

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Operating System

Arch

Kernel

6.17.7-arch1-2

Processor

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U with Radeon Graphics stepping : 0

RAM (in GB)

32

GPU(s)

Vega 8 embedded in processor

Version

0.13.4

Branch

main

Additional Information

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[Coopydood]

Hi there, we've experimented with automatically selecting virtio as the default for the macOS versions that support it in v0.14.0. This should be out soon.

Hope you're enjoying the project. :)

[erenoglu]

OK great, so far so good. I tried to change an already installed image to virtio but it didn't work.
Now I'm re-installing, but I changed them to virtio before I start the installation. Let's see if that would work. Installer recognized the virtio disk.

[erenoglu]

I had to do a few reboots during install (maybe this was expected), but ultimately it works on Sequoia.