[PATCH] virtmanager: Fixed the legacy firmware installation error

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Mon Jan 4 18:42:43 UTC 2021


On 12/22/20 3:24 AM, Cho, Yu-Chen wrote:
> When we choose /usr/share/qemu/bios.bin or /usr/share/qemu/bios-256k.bin
> in Customize configuration before install, show this error message:
> 
> Unable to complete install: 'operation failed: unable to find any master var store for loader: /usr/share/qemu/bios.bin'
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 65, in cb_wrapper
>     callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/createvm.py", line 2081, in _do_async_install
>     installer.start_install(guest, meter=meter)
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installer.py", line 721, in start_install
>     domain = self._create_guest(
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/install/installer.py", line 669, in _create_guest
>     domain = self.conn.createXML(install_xml or final_xml, 0)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 4347, in createXML
>     raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateXML() failed')
> libvirt.libvirtError: operation failed: unable to find any master var store for loader: /usr/share/qemu/bios.bin
> 
> This patch check the loader if it is include bios.bin and bios-256k.bin.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cho, Yu-Chen <acho at suse.com>

Thanks for the patch. Please run pytest --cov and make sure there is not
any test or coverage regressions after this patch is applied.

> ---
>  virtManager/object/domain.py | 18 +++++++++---------
>  virtinst/guest.py            | 13 +++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virtManager/object/domain.py b/virtManager/object/domain.py
> index cc2f506d..77590375 100644
> --- a/virtManager/object/domain.py
> +++ b/virtManager/object/domain.py
> @@ -671,16 +671,16 @@ class vmmDomain(vmmLibvirtObject):
>  
>          if loader != _SENTINEL:
>              if loader is None:
> -                # Implies seabios, aka the default, so clear everything
> -                guest.os.loader = None
> -                guest.os.loader_ro = None
> -                guest.os.loader_type = None
> -                guest.os.nvram = None
> -                guest.os.nvram_template = None
> +                # Implies the default, so clear everything
> +                guest.set_legacy_path(None)
>              else:
> -                # Implies UEFI
> -                guest.set_uefi_path(loader)
> -                guest.disable_hyperv_for_uefi()
> +                if ("bios.bin" or "bios-256k.bin" in loader):
> +                    # Imlies Custom: seabios, not UEFI

Mixing tabs and spaces here which breaks running pytest on my machine.
Also Imlies -> Implies

- Cole




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