virt-preview missing bios package

[Tom Hughes]

The new QEMU packages added to the F12 virt-preview repository in the 
last few days apparently require a new BIOS but that doesn't seem to be 
present in the repository.

As it stands any attempt to start QEMU after updating just gives me a 
black screen.

Tom

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[Frédéric Grelot]

I can confirm this (with few linux-32b images created before this update).
I can't even ssh to my images, so they don't seem to have really started (while
virt-manager shows they have).

Frederic.


----- "Tom Hughes" <tom(a)compton.nu&gt; a écrit :

>  The new QEMU packages added to the F12 virt-preview repository in
> the
>  
>  last few days apparently require a new BIOS but that doesn't seem to
>  be 
>  present in the repository.
>  
>  As it stands any attempt to start QEMU after updating just gives me a
>  
>  black screen.
>  
>  Tom
>  
>  -- 
>  Tom Hughes (tom(a)compton.nu)
>  http://www.compton.nu/
>  
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[Cole Robinson]

On 01/07/2010 10:25 AM, Frédéric Grelot wrote:
>  I can confirm this (with few linux-32b images created before this
> update).
>  I can't even ssh to my images, so they don't seem to have really started (while
> virt-manager shows they have).
>  
>  Frederic.
>  
Seems like seabios is missing, which is the new default bios for qemu
(replacing bochs). We probably need to package it up as was done with
the bochs-bios package. Maybe we can just patch it in qemu CVS until the
new package is available?

- Cole

>  
>  ----- "Tom Hughes" <tom(a)compton.nu&gt; a écrit :
>  
> > The new QEMU packages added to the F12 virt-preview repository in the
> >
> > last few days apparently require a new BIOS but that doesn't seem to
> > be 
> > present in the repository.
> >
> > As it stands any attempt to start QEMU after updating just gives me a
> >
> > black screen.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > -- 
> > Tom Hughes (tom(a)compton.nu)
> > http://www.compton.nu/
> >

[Justin Forbes]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 10:52:31AM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
>  The new QEMU packages added to the F12 virt-preview repository in the
> last 
>  few days apparently require a new BIOS but that doesn't seem to be present 
>  in the repository.
>  
They are indeed missing seabios.  I am working on getting it packaged now.
In the meantime you can always:

git clone git://git.linuxtogo.org/home/kevin/seabios.git
cd seabios
make
sudo cp out/bios.bin /usr/share/qemu/bios.bin

And things will work again.

Justin