On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 11:56 -0600, 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.
Well, there was no older seabios shipping with F16, so it made sense. As for virt-preview, seabios updates were also available there long before the qemu which required them. Enabling virt-preview and doing a yum update would have installed the new seabios as well. I just don't think that virt-preview can ever be trusted to pick and choose specific packages, you either want the F15 virt stack as it is, or the F16 (virt-preview) virt stack. Justin