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Re: [Qemu-devel] Missing PCI network device ROM bar on ARM
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Daniel P. Berrange |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Missing PCI network device ROM bar on ARM |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:11:58 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) |
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 04:55:16PM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So there was made a decision that default ROM bars for network devices
> shouldn't
> be packaged for ARM architecture. Based on this thorough explanation [1] it
What do you mean by 'shouldn't be packaged for ARM architecture' ? It sounds
like you are referring to the QEMU RPM packaging, which would sound like a
bogus decision, since you can run non-arm emulator binaries on the arm host
arch.
> makes sense that it's useless. However it leads to a small issue with
> starting
> a guest on ARM hosts with PCI network device, if there are no ROM files
> included
> it will fail with error message:
>
> -device
> virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:10:e9:80,bus=pci.2,addr=0x1:
> failed to find romfile "efi-virtio.rom"
>
> there is also a bug [2].
>
> It was originally created against virt-manager, but I've moved it to libvirt
> temporally because I don't think that this should be a job for virt-manager to
> workaround this ugly behavior of QEMU, because all other layers using libvirt
> would have to do the same workaround. However I also thing that it isn't a
> job
> for libvirt too, because if you don't specify anything about using or not
> using
> a ROM bar (you just don't care about it) the QEMU process should start without
> any error. This means that the default behavior should be based on the fact
> whether there is or isn't a required ROM file to load.
>
> So I would like to start a discussion where would be the best place to fix
> this.
Regards,
Daniel
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