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FS#60600 - [qemu] vgabios-bochs-display.bin is missing

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum) - Friday, 26 October 2018, 13:09 GMT
Last edited by Anatol Pomozov (anatolik) - Thursday, 08 November 2018, 23:45 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Anatol Pomozov (anatolik)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

qemu supports bochs-display since v3.0.0 [1]. But the respective ROM file is not provided neither by seabios package, nor by this package.

So, once qemu is launched with this device specified, an error is printed.

The file is, however, provided in the src archive:

[~]$ tar --list --file=qemu-3.0.0.tar.xz | grep vgabios-bochs-display.bin
qemu-3.0.0/pc-bios/vgabios-bochs-display.bin

So the PKGBUILD can just install it from there.

Additional info:

qemu-3.0.0-3

Steps to reproduce:

[~]$ qemu-system-x86_64 -device bochs-display
qemu-system-x86_64: -device bochs-display: failed to find romfile "vgabios-bochs-display.bin"

[1] https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2018/10/qemu-vga-emulation-and-bochs-display/
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Closed by  Anatol Pomozov (anatolik)
Thursday, 08 November 2018, 23:45 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  1.11.0-4
Comment by Anatol Pomozov (anatolik) - Tuesday, 06 November 2018, 21:26 GMT
Added the vga bios files to seabios-1.11.0-2. Please install and verify that it works as expected.
Comment by Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum) - Tuesday, 06 November 2018, 21:30 GMT
No:

===
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
seabios: /usr/share/qemu/vgabios-virtio.bin exists in filesystem (owned by qemu-headless)
===
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Wednesday, 07 November 2018, 00:21 GMT
1.11.0-4 is identical to 1.11.0-2 and conflicts with qemu again.
Comment by Anatol Pomozov (anatolik) - Wednesday, 07 November 2018, 00:35 GMT
1.11.0-4 is in [testing]. I am building qemu package that does provide vgabios-virtio.bin
Comment by Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum) - Wednesday, 07 November 2018, 06:39 GMT
Things in testing seem to work, thanks.

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