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

[Thiemo Seufer]

Soren Hansen wrote:
> 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?

Onerous cross-compiler dependencies.

> > 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.

One way around that would be to build additional BIOS images which use
the qemu patches in the bochs package, provide them via an Architecture:all
data package, and then let the Qemu package depend on that data package.


Thiemo