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and subject line Bug#772127: fixed in qemu 2.1+dfsg-10
has caused the Debian Bug report #772127,
regarding many qemu-system-* targets does not work due to missing firmware
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Package: qemu-system
Version: 2.1+dfsg-3
Severity: serious
Many qemu-system-* system-mode emulators don't work anymore because
they can't find firmware files.
For example, many even non-x86 systems can have PCI VGA/video cards,
which needs firmware (vgabios). Alpha, mips*, ppc*, sparc64 (besides
x86) are example architectures which use vgabios - either just stdvga
or several variants.
Aarch64, alpha, arm, mips*, ppc*, sh4*, sparc64 use pxe boot roms.
This has been partially broken since 1.3.0+dfsg-5exp version, when a
monolythic qemu-system package has been split into several arch-specific
subpackages. At that time, everything worked as long as qemu-system-x86
package has been installed, since it provided the required symlinks in
/usr/share/qemu/ and other packages was able to find firmware using these
symlinks. Not ideal solution ofcourse, but since -x86 is almost always
installed, this bug hasn't been noticed before.
And all these systems are completely broken since 2.1+dfsg-3, when
firmware handling has been modified in debian qemu package and qemu-system-x86
does not provide the symlinks anymore.
The solution is to set standard search path for all systems, not depending
on the architecture, and add recommends/suggests on seabios and ipxe-qemu
packages to these systems.
/mjt
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: qemu
Source-Version: 2.1+dfsg-10
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
qemu, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Tokarev <[email protected]> (supplier of updated qemu package)
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:47:36 +0300
Source: qemu
Binary: qemu qemu-system qemu-system-common qemu-system-misc qemu-system-arm
qemu-system-mips qemu-system-ppc qemu-system-sparc qemu-system-x86 qemu-user
qemu-user-static qemu-user-binfmt qemu-utils qemu-guest-agent qemu-kvm
Architecture: source
Version: 2.1+dfsg-10
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Michael Tokarev <[email protected]>
Description:
qemu - fast processor emulator
qemu-guest-agent - Guest-side qemu-system agent
qemu-kvm - QEMU Full virtualization on x86 hardware
qemu-system - QEMU full system emulation binaries
qemu-system-arm - QEMU full system emulation binaries (arm)
qemu-system-common - QEMU full system emulation binaries (common files)
qemu-system-mips - QEMU full system emulation binaries (mips)
qemu-system-misc - QEMU full system emulation binaries (miscelaneous)
qemu-system-ppc - QEMU full system emulation binaries (ppc)
qemu-system-sparc - QEMU full system emulation binaries (sparc)
qemu-system-x86 - QEMU full system emulation binaries (x86)
qemu-user - QEMU user mode emulation binaries
qemu-user-binfmt - QEMU user mode binfmt registration for qemu-user
qemu-user-static - QEMU user mode emulation binaries (static version)
qemu-utils - QEMU utilities
Closes: 772127
Changes:
qemu (2.1+dfsg-10) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* make (debian-specific) x86 data path (with seabios and ipxe
in it) non-x86-specific, since other arches use firmware
files too (Closes: #772127)
* add seabios to Recommends to qemu-system-misc, qemu-system-mips,
qemu-system-ppc and qemu-system-sparc packages, because these
packages contains emulators using vgabios which is part of
seabios package (#772127).
* add ipxe-qemu to Recommends to qemu-system-misc, qemu-system-arm,
qemu-system-mips, qemu-system-ppc, qemu-system-sparc packages,
because these packages contains emulators using network boot
roms (#772127), in a similar way.
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