[Qemu-devel] Re: pc-bios/bios.bin - where it comes from?

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 03/05/2010 03:17 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> The thing is that roms/seabios directory is _empty_ in
> qemu-KVM-0.12.3.tar.gz.

That's a mistake as I don't think that was Avi/Marcelo's intention.

>    So I can't use the sources you
> (the qemu-kvm team anyway) ship because there's no shipped
> sources, so I have to try to be clever and find a way to
> deal with the issue.
>
> But now when you mentioned it and I _finally_ found the
> bios source in qemu-0.12.3, maybe I'll be even more
> clever and will patch qemu-kvm with bits missing in it
> from qemu-0.12.3.  Ugly but at least doable.
>    

The qemu-kvm tarball was generated incorrectly.  To regenerate it 
correctly, you would do:

$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git 
qemu-kvm-0.12.3.1
$ cd qemu-kvm-0.12.3.1
$ git submodule update --init
$ rm -rf .git roms/seabios/.git roms/vgabios/.git
$ echo '0.12.3.1' > VERSION

Ideally, Avi/Marcelo will do a 0.12.3.1 to fix this.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori