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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