reassign 400902 bochsbios retitle 400902 bochsbios: Please provide DMI information tag 400902 + fixed-upstream thanks
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:59:00PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Package: qemu > Version: 0.8.1-1 > Severity: wishlist > > I ran into a problem when trying to install RHEL 5 beta 2 in qemu. > The installer fail with a python backtrace naming dmidecode as the > source of the problem. The reason seem to be that the RHEL 5 > installer isn't prepared to handle machines without DMI information > available. > > When I run dmidecode in a virtual Debian installation on qemu version > 0.8.1-1, I get this output indicating that no DMI information is > present in the virtual machine: > > # dmidecode 2.8 > # No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry. > > Please add DMI support to qemu. > DMI support is actually provided by the BIOS, not by the machine. In your case, the support has to be added to bochsbios, and it has already been done in the upstream CVS. Reassigning the bug. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
