Package: qemu-kvm Version: 0.15.1 Severity: normal This bug is related to the four packages qemu, qemu-kvm, seabios and libvirt.
Since libvirt-0.9.3 the "bootindex" Option of qemu / qemu-kvm is supported. libvirt used the following command to detect the availability of bootindex: kvm "-device" "pci-assign,?" 2>&1 | grep bootindex When libvirt detects a version of qemu with announces this option, it drops the usage of "-boot [abcd]" and uses the "-device ...,bootindex=[1-9]" option instead. This break specifying the boot device when using qemu-version >= 0.14. This only works with the SeaBIOS-version shipped with qemu itself (for qemu-0.15.1 this is SeaBIOS-0.6.3 as far as I know), since qemu passes an "bootorder" file to the BIOS, which is then not processed by the old version of SeaBIOS. SeaBIOS-git also works. A new version of SeaBIOS would probably be the best solution, since stripping the SeaBIOS binary from qemu is required for DFSG cleanliness. Qemu (and thus libvirt) does not have a method to detect if the bios.bin binary file contains support for bootindex. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
