Re: [Xen-users] [Solved] (pv)hvm, upstream qemu 1.7.1

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 11 May 2014, Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> On 2014-05-09 16:21, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 May 2014, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 15:08 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 8 May 2014, Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> >>>> On 05/07/14 18:55, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 14 Apr 2014, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >>>>>> Anthony, Stefano: Any idea what this issue is?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 21:44 +0200, Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> What does not work is (PV)HVM with device_model_version="qemu-xen". My
> >>>>>>> Xen is compiled with '--with-system-qemu=...' and uses the system
> >>>>>>> qemu-system-x86_64 binary, which is qemu 1.7.1.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> This is supposed to work, according to
> >>>>>>> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/QEMU_Upstream.
> 
> After reading some other, related posts on the xen-devel list I managed
> to fix my problem.
> 
> I rebuilt my Xen with:
>     --with-system-seabios=/usr/share/qemu/bios.bin
> to force it to use the SeaBIOS provided by QEMU. Now the 'MMIO emulation'
> errors are gone and the domU boots properly.
> 
> It seems the SeaBIOS used by default in the Xen build process is not
> compatible with QEMU 1.7.1.
> 
> Now, I am going to prepare a separate package with SeaBIOS for my
> distribution (PLD Linux) and make both QEMU (on runtime) and Xen (during
> boot) use that.

Thanks for narrowing it down by yourself, and sorry that I couldn't help you.
Cheers,

Stefano

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