Bug 811227

Summary:	RFE: Ability to specify custom BIOS for QEMU/KVM using <loader> XML (for WHQL testing)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.3	CC:	acathrow, ajia, dallan, dyasny, dyuan, honzhang, lersek, mzhan, rwu
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Fixed In Version:	libvirt-0.9.10-11.el6	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Last Closed:	2012-06-20 06:52:59 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Daniel Berrangé 2012-04-10 13:32:22 UTC

Description of problem:
For WHQL testing we need the ability to specify an alternative BIOS impl to QEMU. Libvirt already has XML for doing this (<loader>) but this is not wired up for QEMU.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-0.9.10-10.el6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. virsh edit GUESTNAME
2. Add <loader>/usr/share/seabios/bios-s3.bin</loader>
3. virsh start GUESTNAME
4. ps -axuf | grep -- -bios 
 
Actual results:
No process shown

Expected results:
Process shown using the -bios command line arg

Additional info:

Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2012-04-10 14:03:52 UTC

Upstream patch:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-April/msg00399.html

Comment 5 hongming 2012-04-12 10:12:43 UTC

Verify using 
kernel-2.6.32-250.el6.x86_64
libvirt-0.9.10-11.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.270.el6.x86_64


Steps
1.virsh edit guest.
2.Add <loader>/usr/share/seabios/bios.bin</loader> under <os> element.
3.virsh start guest.
4.# ps -ef |grep -- -bios 

qemu     28666     1 30 18:07 ?        00:00:07 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.3.0 -enable-kvm -bios /usr/share/seabios/bios.bin -m 1024 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name win7virtio -uuid ef2f06e7-5b95-ca45-e475-7e64a6c80cab -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/win7virtio.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime,driftfix=slew -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7-64-virtio.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=qcow2,cache=none -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=26,id=hostnet0 -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:f8:57:6b,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:3 -vga std -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5

So move its status to verified.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-20 06:52:59 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0748.html

Comment 8 Laszlo Ersek 2012-07-05 14:53:47 UTC

OVMF requires overriding two files,

  bios.bin -> /root/OVMF.fd
  vgabios-cirrus.bin -> /root/OvmfVideo.rom

This patch makes the first override available via libvirt, but the second override is apparently not even supported by upstream qemu. It seems to hardwire VGABIOS_CIRRUS_FILENAME. Perhaps we should introduce a -vgabios command line parameter that overrides "romfile" for whichever -vga is selected.

Comment 9 Daniel Berrangé 2012-07-05 14:58:47 UTC

First off all this bug is closed, so please don't use this for making further requests. Open a new bug to track whatever problems you still have.

Secondly, I don't think what you say about QEMU is correct. Every PCI device in QEMU has a 'romfile' option available these days:

$ qemu-kvm  -device cirrus-vga,?
cirrus-vga.addr=pci-devfn
cirrus-vga.romfile=string
cirrus-vga.rombar=uint32
cirrus-vga.multifunction=on/off
cirrus-vga.command_serr_enable=on/off


Libvirt supports this against any device too, using

  <rom file="/some/path"/>

but unfortunatelty the QEMU driver is only processing this for <inteface> and <hostdev> devices currently. We ought to be able to wire this up for <video> devices too.

Comment 10 Paolo Bonzini 2012-07-05 14:59:29 UTC

You can embed the video driver in the main ROM: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-03/msg01992.html

Comment 11 Laszlo Ersek 2012-07-05 15:55:44 UTC

Thanks, that worked. Sorry for the noise.