On 09/28/2011 07:56 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 09/28/2011 11:43 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> The libvirt package should probably be updated to require seabios-bin>=
>>> 0.6.2.
>>
>> Yes, that probably needs to happen to libvirt.spec when built for F16
>> (and thus imported into F15 via virt-preview). I'll tackle that, since
>> I've been making a couple other spec file patches lately.
>
> It is not a libvirt requirement really. It is QEMU that is advertising
> it supports the per-device boot ordering feature. libvirt queries this
> and then tries to use it. QEMU should have required the new Seabios if
> it intends to advertise this feature.
Ah, then the problem is qemu's spec file. On F16, I see this from 'yum
deplist qemu-system-x86':
dependency: seabios-bin
provider: seabios-bin.noarch 0.6.2-2.fc16
So it is not requiring a minimal version, and when backporting qemu to F15
via virt-preview, no seabios-bin upgrade is being pulled in. I've created
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741992 against qemu.
I'm not sure if that is correct. It is purely the libvirt update that
breaks things:
1. qemu 0.14.0, libvirt 0.8.8, seabios-bin 0.6.0
=> virtio boots fine
2. update libvirt to 0.9.6
=> virtio boot breaks
3. update seabios-bin to 0.6.2
=> virtio works again
Since I didn't update qemu at all any changes to its dependencies do not
help in this situation.
Regards,
Dennis