[SOLVED] Attaching hard drive as virtio-scsi on QEMU

[imieinazwisko]

I'm trying to attach one of my hard drives to my VM through QEMU. I've been able to attach hard drives fine using ide-hd but I have read that scsi is faster so I'm trying to get that working. Following the Gentoo Wiki on virtio-scsi I added the following three lines to my QEMU script:

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    -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0 \
    -drive file=/dev/sda,id=slon,format=raw,if=none,discard=unmap,aio=native,cache=none \
    -device scsi-hd,drive=slon,bus=scsi0.0 \

When I boot up Win10 there is a SCSI device in the removable device menu but the hard drive does not see to be attached. The hard drive is functional. It's mounted under Gentoo just fine. It's NTFS formatted so there shouldn't be any file system incompatibilities. Checking fdisk

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Disk /dev/sda: 1.84 TiB

That is also the correct drive. Is something wrong with my syntax or is there something else I need to look at? Below is my entire QEMU script in case there's something else that is interfering.

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exec qemu-system-x86_64 \
    -enable-kvm -m 16384 -cpu host,kvm=off \
    -smp 6,sockets=1,cores=6,threads=1 \
    -device vfio-pci,host=07:00.0,x-vga=on  \
    -device vfio-pci,host=07:00.1 \
    -vga none\
    -drive file=/home/user/VirtualMachines/Win10/Win10.qcow2,id=disk,format=qcow2,if=none \
    -device ide-hd,bus=ide.0,drive=disk \
    -boot menu=on \
    -usb \
    -device virtio-serial \
    -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing \
    -device usb-host,vendorid=0x413c,productid=0x2003,id=keyboard \
    -device usb-host,vendorid=0x046d,productid=0xc537,id=mouse \
    -device usb-host,vendorid=0x0d8c,productid=0x0005,id=microphone \
    -drive file=/dev/sdb,id=storage,format=raw,if=none \
    -device ide-hd,bus=ide.1,drive=storage \
    -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0 \
    -drive file=/dev/sda,id=slon,format=raw,if=none,discard=unmap,aio=native,cache=none \
    -device scsi-hd,drive=slon,bus=scsi0.0 \
    -device ivshmem-plain,memdev=ivshmem,bus=pci.0 \
    -object memory-backend-file,id=ivshmem,share=on,mem-path=/dev/shm/looking-glass,size=32M \
    -mem-path /dev/hugepages
    $@

[imieinazwisko]

Alright I figured this one out. My syntax is correct. What needs to be done is install the correct scsi driver on the windows side. Go to this fedora site and get the iso and the driver is in there. I also installed app-emulation/virtio-win in portage. I'm not sure if that last part is necessary or not.