On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:20:57PM +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote: > 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, I believe there is a command line parameter that could let libvirt point QEMU at a different bios, but it certainly isn't part of libvirt yet, and I've not tried how it works Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|
