Re: [PATCH] tests/vm: do not specify -bios option

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 10:30:25AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> When running from the build tree, the executable is able to find
> the BIOS on its own; when running from the source tree, a firmware
> blob should already be installed and there is no guarantee that
> the one in the source tree works with the QEMU that is being used for
> the installation.

I think there is interaction with

  --firmwarepath=/usr/share/qemu-firmware:/usr/share/ipxe/qemu:/usr/share/seavgabios:/usr/share/seabios:/usr/share/sgabios

as the firmware path listed there will be searched before the local
build tree.

I agree with your desire to remove the -bios option, but I'm not
sure it is entirely safe unless logic in qemu_find_file is fixed
to ignore the global search path when running from the build
tree.

> Just remove the -bios option, since it is unnecessary and in fact
> there are other x86 VM tests that do not bother specifying it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
>  tests/vm/fedora  | 1 -
>  tests/vm/freebsd | 1 -
>  tests/vm/netbsd  | 1 -
>  tests/vm/openbsd | 1 -
>  4 files changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/vm/fedora b/tests/vm/fedora
> index 92b78d6e2c..12eca919a0 100755
> --- a/tests/vm/fedora
> +++ b/tests/vm/fedora
> @@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ class FedoraVM(basevm.BaseVM):
>          self.exec_qemu_img("create", "-f", "qcow2", img_tmp, self.size)
>          self.print_step("Booting installer")
>          self.boot(img_tmp, extra_args = [
> -            "-bios", "pc-bios/bios-256k.bin",
>              "-machine", "graphics=off",
>              "-device", "VGA",
>              "-cdrom", iso
> diff --git a/tests/vm/freebsd b/tests/vm/freebsd
> index 805db759d6..cd1fabde52 100755
> --- a/tests/vm/freebsd
> +++ b/tests/vm/freebsd
> @@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ class FreeBSDVM(basevm.BaseVM):
>  
>          self.print_step("Booting installer")
>          self.boot(img_tmp, extra_args = [
> -            "-bios", "pc-bios/bios-256k.bin",
>              "-machine", "graphics=off",
>              "-device", "VGA",
>              "-cdrom", iso
> diff --git a/tests/vm/netbsd b/tests/vm/netbsd
> index 45aa9a7fda..aa883ec23c 100755
> --- a/tests/vm/netbsd
> +++ b/tests/vm/netbsd
> @@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ class NetBSDVM(basevm.BaseVM):
>  
>          self.print_step("Booting installer")
>          self.boot(img_tmp, extra_args = [
> -            "-bios", "pc-bios/bios-256k.bin",
>              "-machine", "graphics=off",
>              "-cdrom", iso
>          ])
> diff --git a/tests/vm/openbsd b/tests/vm/openbsd
> index 13c8254214..6f1b6f5b98 100755
> --- a/tests/vm/openbsd
> +++ b/tests/vm/openbsd
> @@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ class OpenBSDVM(basevm.BaseVM):
>  
>          self.print_step("Booting installer")
>          self.boot(img_tmp, extra_args = [
> -            "-bios", "pc-bios/bios-256k.bin",
>              "-machine", "graphics=off",
>              "-device", "VGA",
>              "-cdrom", iso
> -- 
> 2.36.1
> 
> 

With regards,
Daniel
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