FS#10219 - Use the kvm supplied bios in qemu package

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Damjan Georgievski (damjan) - Friday, 18 April 2008, 21:01 GMT
Last edited by Paul Mattal (paul) - Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 12:09 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

I've been playing with qemu-kvm and installing the latest Ubuntu JEOS (8.04) on it. I noticed that JEOS kernel would not enable ACPI, and when using acpi=force it would hang on booting.

Also I was trying to use the new VIRTIO suport in KVM, but the neccesseary option
"-drive file=$IMG,if=virtio,boot=on" didn't work because of a missing "extboot.bin".

After some exploration, I've found the extboot.bin file in the KVM source, and copied to /usr/share/qemu/ - but still it wouldn't boot. Then I copied all the files from pkg-qemu/src/kvm-66/qemu/pc-bios/ to /usr/share/qemu/ and then I could boot with the virtio disk driver and aslo my ACPI problems were solved.

Conclusion: the bios files supplied with KVM are of better use.
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Closed by  Paul Mattal (paul)
Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 12:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  Applied patch for qemu-0.9.1-5.
Comment by jon (emphire) - Monday, 30 June 2008, 07:21 GMT
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)
extboot.bin is still missing. I can submit a patch for the PKGBUILD if you like.
Comment by jon (emphire) - Monday, 30 June 2008, 07:34 GMT
Attached is the patch. It compiles and copies over 'extboot.bin'. It also updates the url for the qemu source (as the old one is no longer valid).
   PKGBUILD.patch (1.8 KiB)

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