Re: [Qemu-devel] wrong bios.bin file in Ubuntu Linux 7.10 causes blue screen on w2k guest

[Soren Hansen]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:47:22PM -0500, Markus Schulz wrote:
> Thank you for your response; I think the file can be found here:
> http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/qemu/pc-bios/?root=qemu

> As far as I understand Qemu uses the BIOS from the Bochs project and
> the diff is applied for Qemu and it becomes the Qemu BIOS.

If that's really the case, I'm curious why it's distributed in its
binary form rather than being built at runtime. Fabrice, can you shed
some light on this?

> I think every Qemu installation should use this Qemu BIOS, the BIOS
> that is made for this project and not the original Bochs BIOS. Are you
> able to fix this in Ubuntu?

Debian and Ubuntu have fairly strict policies about stuff shipped in
binary form in source packages, so unless qemu is changed to build this
bios at build time, that's not going to happen.
I'm also not familiar with the changes in the bios.diff. Are they
specific to qemu or could the theoretically be applied to upstream bochs
without any ill side effects?

> BTW the Ubuntu has the same problem like Windows, if I try to start a
> image of Ubuntu with the wrong BIOS it crashes too.

What do you mean exactly by "image"? Disk image + snapshot?

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Soren Hansen
Ubuntu Server Team
http://www.ubuntu.com/

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