Bug 811235

Summary: RFE: Add support for setting BIOS path with virt-install -boot arg (for WHQL testing)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Component: python-virtinstAssignee: virt-mgr-maint
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 6.3CC: dallan, mzhan, rwu, yupzhang, zpeng
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Last Closed: 2012-07-24 19:20:30 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Daniel Berrangé 2012-04-10 14:00:07 UTC 
Description of problem:
To support WHQL testing it is necessary to specify a custom BIOS for KVM. This can be done using the <loader> XML element to libvirt. The existing '-boot' arg to virt-install has support for many XML elements, but not <loader>.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-virtinst-0.600.0-8.el6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. virt-install --boot loader=/usr/share/seabios/bios.bin
2. virsh dumpxml GUESTNAME | xpath /domain/os/loader
3. virsh dumpxml --inactive GUESTNAME | xpath /domain/os/loader

Actual results:
ERROR    Unknown options ['loader']

Expected results:
[root@lettuce ~]# virsh dumpxml  demo | xpath /domain/os/loader
Found 1 nodes:
-- NODE --
<loader>/usr/share/seabios/bios.bin</loader>
[root@lettuce ~]# virsh dumpxml --inactive demo | xpath /domain/os/loader
Found 1 nodes:
-- NODE --
<loader>/usr/share/seabios/bios.bin</loader>


Additional info:
Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2012-04-10 14:03:33 UTC 
Upstream patch:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2012-April/msg00054.html
Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2012-04-16 14:25:03 UTC 
Upstream commit:

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git?p=python-virtinst.git;a=commit;h=6a2990c117747cea66a10096ca04dec3fcbbb568

But does anyone actually need this? No one chimed in on the internal thread about needing virt-install support.
Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2012-04-25 16:36:33 UTC 
Deferring to 6.4 since I don't think this is a requirement for 6.3