libvirt users - Aug 2010 - how to load different bios into qemu

Hello. I'm using debian squeeze with libvirt and kvm and I need to load a
newer version of seabios into qemu. I'd like to do it without overwriting
seabios in the debian package because that might be overwritten on the next
update. I hopend that the <loader> directive in the config would work but
it
doesn't.

thanks for any ideas.

mk

On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 06:19:09PM +0200, Martin Kraus
wrote:
> Hello. I'm using debian squeeze with libvirt and kvm and I need to load
a
> newer version of seabios into qemu. I'd like to do it without
overwriting
> seabios in the debian package because that might be overwritten on the next
> update. I hopend that the <loader> directive in the config would work
but it
> doesn't.
  As far as I know, the BIOS used by QEmu is completely hidden from
libvirt (this can actually be a problem as some corner cases of virtio
boot support are dependant on the seabios version), so unfortunately
there is nothing which can be done at the libvirt level I think,

Daniel

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