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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [50809c8] Attempt to boot a guest results in -
 qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios-256k.bin'
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To: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Il 08/06/2014 14:18, Kashyap Chamarthy ha scritto:
> Heya,
>
> I built QEMU from this commit:
>
>     $ git log | head -2
>     commit 50809c8b9288a9bfe1fdec926b7ef985608a7ea6
>     Merge: 4e627ae ae74bbe
>
>
> And, attempted to boot a Fedora guest via this QEMU CLI results as
> below:
>
>     $ /usr/local/sbin/qemu-system-x86_64 -s -S -nographic \
>       -nodefconfig -nodefaults -machine accel=kvm -m 3000 \
>       -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/Fedora-x86_64-20-20140407-sda.qcow2,if=ide,format=qcow2,cache=none \
>       -serial stdio
>     qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios-256k.bin'
>
>
> That's the seabios-bin version:
>
>     $ rpm -q seabios-bin
>     seabios-bin-1.7.4-3.fc21.noarch
>
>
> That's how I build QEMU:
>
>     $ git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git
>     $ mkdir -p ~/build/qemu && cd ~/build/qemu
>     $ ~/src/qemu/./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu \
>       --disable-werror --enable-debug
>     $ make -j4
>
>
> Any hints as to why can't QEMU load the BIOS in this case?
>

QEMU's "make install" should have installed the firmware blobs in 
/usr/share/local/qemu, including bios-256k.bin.  Did it?

Paolo