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, virtio and seabios are exactly the reason for my question:) I'll just copy over the new bios, it will work fine. thanks for help mk