On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 03:40:23PM +0100, Phil Tooley wrote: > Hello all, > > So I am trying to get a qemu guest to use a custom patched seabios image > rather than the default /usr/share/qemu/bios.bin > > I have tried changing the domain config file to include either: > > <os> > --SNIP-- > <loader readonly='yes' > type='rom'>/home/telemin/qemu/seabios_patched.bin</loader> > </os> This one is correct approach - what exactly failed when you tried this ? > domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0' > --SNIP-- > <qemu:commandline> > <qemu:arg value='-smbios'/> > <qemu:arg value='file=/home/telemin/qemu/seabios_patched.bin'/> > </qemu:commandline> > --SNIP-- This is wrong '-smbios' is for setting up guest data tables, not for providing firmware images. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
