Re: [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.12.1

[Ingmar Schraub <is@eseco.de>]

Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Am Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:14:13 +0100 schrieb Ingmar Schraub:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> after upgrading from qemu-kvm-0.12.0-rc2 to qemu-kvm-0.12.1 I cannot
>> start my Windows 7 (64Bit) VM any more. I get the following error on
>> start-up:
>>
>> rom: requested regions overlap (rom vapic.bin. free=0x0000000000000600,
>> addr=0x0000000000000000)
>> rom loading failed
>>
>> I used to run it with this command line:
>>
>> qemu-system-x86_64 -k de -enable-kvm -usb -drive
>> file=/home/ingmar/kvm/windows7.qcow2,if=ide,boot=on,cache=none -net
>> nic,macaddr=DE:AD:BE:EF:28:26,vlan=1,model=e1000 -net
>> tap,script=/etc/kvm/qemu-ifup,vlan=1 -m 1024 -vnc :3 -boot c
>>
>> Any idea what is wrong here? It worked fine with all previous qemu-kvm
>> versions.
> 
> remove "boot=on" from -drive and set "-boot order=c" instead of "-boot c"
> 
> is boot=on in "-drive" no longer supported or is this a bug?
> 
> - Thomas

Interesting! That works. But how can it be that 'boot=on' in "-drive"
can cause such a failure? If a command line option would have been
deprecated, I would rather expect to see a command-line parsing error.

Looks more like a bug to me:

-drive [file=file][,if=type][,bus=n][,unit=m][,media=d][,index=i]
       [,cyls=c,heads=h,secs=s[,trans=t]][,snapshot=on|off]
       [,cache=writethrough|writeback|none][,format=f][,serial=s]
       [,addr=A][,id=name][,aio=threads|native]
       [,boot=on|off]

At least the help text still shows this option and it was working with
qemu-kvm-0.12.0-rc2

Ingmar