14.11.2010 02:44, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > How to reproduce: > * setup a guest using virtio > * install squeeze in the guest (d-i beta1) > * install grub2 on /dev/vda > * reboot > → the guest will not boot. > > As explained here, it’s a problem with SeaBios: > http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg39932.html > > I built a seabios from git and indeed the guest boots with no > modification, just by passing the correct -bios option. > > I find it a serious hindrance not being able to use a squeeze guest in a > squeeze host - after all this should be a very common setup.
This is not realistic at this point to update seabios to 0.6.x version (currently used is 0.5), since it is not tested at all with 0.12 version of qemu-kvm, and 0.5 is what's shipped with 0.12. Virtio block support went into seabios in 0.6 series, and there were a few changes needed in qemu-kvm side for that too. You can use squeeze guest in a squeeze host just fine, just install it to ide as you did before, so I'm not seeing why it's Severity: important. Care to explain? I'm going to downgrade the severity to minor and tag it as wontfix, at least for squeeze - booting from virtio disk fully supported in 0.13 which is in -experimental. Thanks. /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
