Re: [libvirt] Upstream : virt-install and virt-manager fails to install the guest with the error "qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios.bin'"
On 06/12/2013 04:29 PM, chandrashekar shastri wrote:
Hi All,
Upstream : virt-install and virt-manager fails to install the guest with
the error "qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios.bin'"
You are missing bios package for that. This depends on the distro
you're using, but probably seabios-bin (vgabios, etc., I don't know the
names) could help. The problem is, however, not caused by you, qemu
itself should have it as a dependency.
Kernel, Qemu, Libvirt, Virt-Manager is built from the source (git).
kernel version : 3.9.0+
qemu version : QEMU emulator version 1.5.0
libvirt version : 1.0.5
virt-install : 0.600.3
From what I know, this should've been fixed [1] in QEMU 1.4.0, but
that
might be distribution specific as well. I guess specific machine types
might require specific BIOSes to be installed.
Hope that helps,
Martin
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901542
Guest installation fails for Standard PC machine type.
virt-install --name vm_name --cdrom <iso path> --disk <disk path > --ram
2000 --machine pc
Starting install...
ERROR internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: char
device redirected to /dev/pts/1
qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios.bin'
Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.
If it was, you can restart your domain by running:
virsh --connect qemu:///system start win7
otherwise, please restart your installation.
Where as the qemu installation succeeds with the same machine type
(standard pc)
qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom <iso_path> -hda <disk_path> -boot d -m 1000
-machine pc
Below is the list of supported machine type:
qemu-system-x86_64 -M ?
Supported machines are:
none empty machine
pc Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of
pc-i440fx-1.5)
pc-i440fx-1.5 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default)
pc-i440fx-1.4 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-1.3 Standard PC
pc-1.2 Standard PC
pc-1.1 Standard PC
pc-1.0 Standard PC
pc-0.15 Standard PC
pc-0.14 Standard PC
pc-0.13 Standard PC
pc-0.12 Standard PC
pc-0.11 Standard PC, qemu 0.11
pc-0.10 Standard PC, qemu 0.10
isapc ISA-only PC
q35 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) (alias of pc-q35-1.5)
pc-q35-1.5 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
pc-q35-1.4 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
Installation fails (virt-install) for all machine types expect
pc-i440fx-1.5 and pc-i440fx-1.4.
Thanks,
Chandrashekar
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