From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59549) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmmE3-0005Ge-1Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:40:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmmE0-00089J-Ap for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:40:38 -0400 Received: from e23smtp07.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.140]:54139) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmmDz-00084W-Nb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:40:36 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp07.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:19:04 +1000 Received: from d23relay03.au.ibm.com (d23relay03.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.21]) by d23dlp03.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442413578045 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:30:08 +1000 (EST) Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (d23av02.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.138]) by d23relay03.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r5CETxc725559270 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:29:59 +1000 Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av02.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r5CEU7xJ023051 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:30:07 +1000 Message-ID: <51B885E7.5080208@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:59:59 +0530 From: chandrashekar shastri MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Upstream : virt-install and virt-manager fails to install the guest with the error "qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios.bin'" List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, libvir-list@redhat.com, virt-tools-list@redhat.com Hi All, Upstream : virt-install and virt-manager fails to install the guest with the error "qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios.bin'" Kernel, Qemu, Libvirt, Virt-Manager is built from the source (git). kernel version : 3.9.0+ qemu version : QEMU emulator version 1.5.0 libvirt version : 1.0.5 virt-install : 0.600.3 Guest installation fails for Standard PC machine type. virt-install --name vm_name --cdrom --disk --ram 2000 --machine pc Starting install... ERROR internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios.bin' Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running: virsh --connect qemu:///system start win7 otherwise, please restart your installation. Where as the qemu installation succeeds with the same machine type (standard pc) qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom -hda -boot d -m 1000 -machine pc Below is the list of supported machine type: qemu-system-x86_64 -M ? Supported machines are: none empty machine pc Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of pc-i440fx-1.5) pc-i440fx-1.5 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default) pc-i440fx-1.4 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-1.3 Standard PC pc-1.2 Standard PC pc-1.1 Standard PC pc-1.0 Standard PC pc-0.15 Standard PC pc-0.14 Standard PC pc-0.13 Standard PC pc-0.12 Standard PC pc-0.11 Standard PC, qemu 0.11 pc-0.10 Standard PC, qemu 0.10 isapc ISA-only PC q35 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) (alias of pc-q35-1.5) pc-q35-1.5 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) pc-q35-1.4 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) Installation fails (virt-install) for all machine types expect pc-i440fx-1.5 and pc-i440fx-1.4. Thanks, Chandrashekar