Hello,
On Wednesday 06 February 2013 01:48:24 Michael Roth wrote:
> Migration from 1.3 currently fails due to a mismatch between the expected
> size of 256KB and the received size of 128KB for seabios.
...
> 2) We can begin checking in past versions of SeaBIOS and other roms and
> loading those according to selected machine type. This would be similar to
> be how we've dealt with similar issues regarding the default vram size
> changing for VGA, but might not scale well with ISPs.
We currenty are carrying the attached patch with our Debian based
distribution, which fixes a very similar issue with the PXE-BIOSs, because
Debian provides it's own compilation of etherboot and iPXE.
As each upgrade threatens to break all your previous snapshots, would it help
to include the BIOSs within the saved state instead of letting qemu pickup the
current external file?
Sincerely
Philipp
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diff -urN qemu-kvm-1.1.2+dfsg.orig/debian/patches/romfile-compatibility.diff qemu-kvm-1.1.2+dfsg/debian/patches/romfile-compatibility.diff
--- qemu-kvm-1.1.2+dfsg.orig/debian/patches/romfile-compatibility.diff 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ qemu-kvm-1.1.2+dfsg/debian/patches/romfile-compatibility.diff 2012-10-08 14:25:09.225656404 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+Bug #24702: Fix PXE ROM size mismatch
+
+For pc-0.14 and older use the PXE ROMs from the deprecated etherboot-qemu
+package, which have different sizes. Without the patch the virtual PC gets
+build with the current ROM sizes. Loading then fails because the stored PCI ROM
+BAR size mismatches the configured size.
+--- a/hw/pc_piix.c
++++ b/hw/pc_piix.c
+@@ -433,6 +433,30 @@ static QEMUMachine pc_machine_v0_15 = {
+ .driver = "virtio-balloon-pci",\
+ .property = "event_idx",\
+ .value = "off",\
++ },{\
++ .driver = "ne2000",\
++ .property = "romfile",\
++ .value = "/usr/lib/etherboot/rtl8029.rom",\
++ },{\
++ .driver = "rtl8139",\
++ .property = "romfile",\
++ .value = "/usr/lib/etherboot/rtl8139.rom",\
++ },{\
++ .driver = "e1000",\
++ .property = "romfile",\
++ .value = "/usr/lib/etherboot/e1000-82540em.rom",\
++ },{\
++ .driver = "pcnet",\
++ .property = "romfile",\
++ .value = "/usr/lib/etherboot/pcnet32.rom",\
++ },{\
++ .driver = "ne2k-isa",\
++ .property = "romfile",\
++ .value = "/usr/lib/etherboot/ne.rom",\
++ },{\
++ .driver = "virtio-net-pci",\
++ .property = "romfile",\
++ .value = "/usr/lib/etherboot/virtio-net.rom",\
+ }
+
+ static QEMUMachine pc_machine_v0_14 = {
diff -urN qemu-kvm-1.1.2+dfsg.orig/debian/patches/series qemu-kvm-1.1.2+dfsg/debian/patches/series
--- qemu-kvm-1.1.2+dfsg.orig/debian/patches/series 2012-09-10 12:14:05.000000000 +0200
+++ qemu-kvm-1.1.2+dfsg/debian/patches/series 2012-10-08 14:24:51.497155189 +0200
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@
net-add--netdev-options-to-man-page.patch
revert-serial-fix-retry-logic.patch
+romfile-compatibility.diff
diff -urN qemu-kvm-1.1.2+dfsg.orig/debian/control qemu-kvm-1.1.2+dfsg/debian/control
--- qemu-kvm-1.1.2+dfsg.orig/debian/control 2012-09-11 08:29:43.000000000 +0200
+++ qemu-kvm-1.1.2+dfsg/debian/control 2012-10-08 15:06:39.201155102 +0200
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@
seabios (>> 1.7.0~), vgabios (>= 0.6c-3~),
qemu-keymaps, qemu-utils (>> 0.14.0),
ipxe-qemu | ipxe (<< 1.0.0+git-20120202.f6840ba-2)
-Recommends: bridge-utils, iproute
+Recommends: bridge-utils, iproute,
+ etherboot-qemu
Suggests: debootstrap, vde2, samba
Provides: kvm
Conflicts: kvm-source (<= 18-1), kvm-data (<= 66+dfsg-1.1), kvm (<< 1:0)
