On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 06:19:09PM +0200, Martin Kraus wrote: > Hello. I'm using debian squeeze with libvirt and kvm and I need to load a > newer version of seabios into qemu. I'd like to do it without overwriting > seabios in the debian package because that might be overwritten on the next > update. I hopend that the <loader> directive in the config would work but it > doesn't. As far as I know, the BIOS used by QEmu is completely hidden from libvirt (this can actually be a problem as some corner cases of virtio boot support are dependant on the seabios version), so unfortunately there is nothing which can be done at the libvirt level I think, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/