On Wed, 01/15 14:40, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 15 January 2014 14:36, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Il 15/01/2014 15:20, Peter Maydell ha scritto: > >>> > > >>> > On RHEL6 I tried "qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom > >>> > http://boot.ipxe.org/ipxe.iso"; and it worked, but it failed on Fedora. > >>> > I don't know if it's a QEMU or curl bug. > >> Doesn't work on MacOSX either: it says > >> qemu-system-x86_64: -cdrom http://boot.ipxe.org/ipxe.iso: could not > >> open disk image http://boot.ipxe.org/ipxe.iso: Unknown protocol > > > > Had you installed QEMU before starting it? Fam, I think you need a way > > to override CONFIG_MODDIR (even an environment variable could do). > > No, I pretty much never install QEMU. I always run it out of a build > directory. Module loading should IMHO work with similar semantics > to the data dir we use for BIOS file loading: one of the places checked > is relative to the executable path. > > Maybe we should also have better error messages for "I tried > to load a module and this error is because I couldn't find one", > so the user might be prompted to install the modules package his > distro provides or investigate config if it's self-built, or whatever... >
Sounds good to me. Will add a message. Fam
