[libvirt] Upgrade-problems from qemu-0.14.1 + libvirt-0.8.4 to qemu-0.15.1 + libvirt-0.9.6: Why I think multifunction=on is a bad idea...

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Nov 17 14:04:17 UTC 2011


On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 06:50:57AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/17/2011 04:54 AM, Philipp Hahn wrote:
> > Hello Eric,
> > 
> > Am Dienstag 15 November 2011 22:33:20 schrieb Eric Blake:
> >> Is there a way to select which ROM image qemu uses from the qemu command
> >> line?
> > 
> > The file names are explicitly added to the qemu command-line:
> >   <qemu:commandline>
> >     <qemu:arg value='-option-rom'/>
> >     <qemu:arg value='/usr/share/kvm/pxe-virtio.bin'/>
> >   </qemu:commandline>
> 
> So we definitely need to expose this in the XML; we already have
> os/bios, so perhaps this would be the best location:
> 
> <domain ...>
>   <os>
>     <bios useserial='yes'>
>       <rom>/usr/share/kvm/pxe-virtio.bin</rom>
>     </bios>
>   </os>
> ...

I wouldn't bother with that nesting - just put it directly inside <os>.
Several other things in there are all associated with the bios.


Daniel
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