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From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Issue with a manually compiled QEMU
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To: Fabien GREGOIRE <fabien.gregoire@outlook.com>
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* Fabien GREGOIRE (fabien.gregoire@outlook.com) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> 
> I have an issue with a manually compiled QEMU working with virt-manager/libvirt :
> 
> Internal Error: process exited while connecting to monitor:
> 
> qemu could not load PC BIOS 'bios-256k.bin'.
> 
> 
> 
> Here are the steps in order to reproduce :
> 
> - QEMU was previously installed from an "apt-get" : QEMU version is 2.5.0 (Debian 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11)
> 
> - To compile QEMU I use the following arguments :
> 
> --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --disable-vnc --enable-sdl --enable-spice --enable-usb-redir --enable-kvm
> 
> with this version : https://github.com/qemu/qemu/archive/v2.5.0.zip
> 
> - I replace the QEMU binary (/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64-spice) and I have the issue with error message written above.
> 
> 
> 
> Do you have any advice / information about this error ? Any workaround ?

You need to get a seabios binary from somewhere - the PC bios for the
emulator to run;  you should find one somewhere in your existing
install previously had a qemu install.

Dave

> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Fabien
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK