Hi All,
Upstream : virt-install and virt-manager fails to install the guest with the error
"qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios.bin'"
Kernel, Qemu, Libvirt, Virt-Manager is built from the source (git).
kernel version : 3.9.0+
qemu version : QEMU emulator version 1.5.0
libvirt version : 1.0.5
virt-install : 0.600.3
Guest installation fails for Standard PC machine type.
virt-install --name vm_name --cdrom <iso path> --disk <disk path > --ram 2000
--machine pc
Starting install...
ERROR internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: char device
redirected to /dev/pts/1
qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios.bin'
Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.
If it was, you can restart your domain by running:
virsh --connect qemu:///system start win7
otherwise, please restart your installation.
Where as the qemu installation succeeds with the same machine type (standard pc)
qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom <iso_path> -hda <disk_path> -boot d -m 1000 -machine
pc
Below is the list of supported machine type:
qemu-system-x86_64 -M ?
Supported machines are:
none empty machine
pc Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of pc-i440fx-1.5)
pc-i440fx-1.5 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default)
pc-i440fx-1.4 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-1.3 Standard PC
pc-1.2 Standard PC
pc-1.1 Standard PC
pc-1.0 Standard PC
pc-0.15 Standard PC
pc-0.14 Standard PC
pc-0.13 Standard PC
pc-0.12 Standard PC
pc-0.11 Standard PC, qemu 0.11
pc-0.10 Standard PC, qemu 0.10
isapc ISA-only PC
q35 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) (alias of pc-q35-1.5)
pc-q35-1.5 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
pc-q35-1.4 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
Installation fails (virt-install) for all machine types expect pc-i440fx-1.5
and pc-i440fx-1.4.
Thanks,
Chandrashekar
