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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:
Upstream patch: https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2012-April/msg00054.html
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.
Deferring to 6.4 since I don't think this is a requirement for 6.3