Control: tag -1 confirmed pending Control: reassign -1 qemu-system-x86 2.1+dfsg-1 Control: retitle -1 qemu 2.1 require seabios >= 1.7.5
12.08.2014 22:20, carl wrote: > Package: qemu-kvm > Version: 2.1+dfsg-2~bpo70+2 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > > Running wheezy, but with qemu-kvm from backports. > > Best I can tell, the latest update made all windows guests unusable. I could > not even boot the windows installer. I tried WinXP, Win7 and Win8, all fail > very early in the boot sequence. > > WinXP in particular complained about 0x000000A5, which according to Microsoft > means "The ACPI Bios in this system is not fully compliant to the > specification" > > My seabios version is 1.7.4-4~bpo70+1. On a hunch, I downloaded the newest > upstream version (1.7.5), and started my VM with "-bios bios.bin-1.7.5". That > fixed it. > > Please consider expediting putting the newest version in wheezy-backports. Yes, this is something I forgot about when building 2.1 package. New qemu really requires at leaat version 1.7.5 of seabios, and my mistake was forgetting to bump this dependency. It's done now for the next unstable upload, and I also uploaded an updated seabios to wheezy-backports. Thank you for the bugreport! /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
