On 06/12/2013 04:29 PM, chandrashekar shastri wrote: > > Hi All, > > Upstream : virt-install and virt-manager fails to install the guest with > the error "qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios.bin'" > You are missing bios package for that. This depends on the distro you're using, but probably seabios-bin (vgabios, etc., I don't know the names) could help. The problem is, however, not caused by you, qemu itself should have it as a dependency. > Kernel, Qemu, Libvirt, Virt-Manager is built from the source (git). > > kernel version : 3.9.0+ > qemu version : QEMU emulator version 1.5.0 > libvirt version : 1.0.5 > virt-install : 0.600.3 > >From what I know, this should've been fixed [1] in QEMU 1.4.0, but that might be distribution specific as well. I guess specific machine types might require specific BIOSes to be installed. Hope that helps, Martin [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901542 > > Guest installation fails for Standard PC machine type. > > virt-install --name vm_name --cdrom <iso path> --disk <disk path > --ram > 2000 --machine pc > > Starting install... > ERROR internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: char > device redirected to /dev/pts/1 > qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios.bin' > > Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. > If it was, you can restart your domain by running: > virsh --connect qemu:///system start win7 > otherwise, please restart your installation. > > Where as the qemu installation succeeds with the same machine type > (standard pc) > > qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom <iso_path> -hda <disk_path> -boot d -m 1000 > -machine pc > > Below is the list of supported machine type: > > qemu-system-x86_64 -M ? > Supported machines are: > none empty machine > pc Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of > pc-i440fx-1.5) > pc-i440fx-1.5 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default) > pc-i440fx-1.4 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) > pc-1.3 Standard PC > pc-1.2 Standard PC > pc-1.1 Standard PC > pc-1.0 Standard PC > pc-0.15 Standard PC > pc-0.14 Standard PC > pc-0.13 Standard PC > pc-0.12 Standard PC > pc-0.11 Standard PC, qemu 0.11 > pc-0.10 Standard PC, qemu 0.10 > isapc ISA-only PC > q35 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) (alias of pc-q35-1.5) > pc-q35-1.5 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) > pc-q35-1.4 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) > > Installation fails (virt-install) for all machine types expect > pc-i440fx-1.5 and pc-i440fx-1.4. > > Thanks, > Chandrashekar > > > -- > libvir-list mailing list > libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list