Bug 454616 – app-emulation/qemu-1.3.0 should depend on sys-firmware/vgabios

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description razamatan 2013-01-30 06:10:23 UTC]

or simply stop deleting the packaged /usr/share/qemu/vgabios* files.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge qemu-1.3.0
2. emerge -p --depclean # ensuring that vgabios is removed
3. try to startup a vm
Actual Results:  
# when run w/o vga args
qemu-kvm: pci_add_option_rom: failed to find romfile "vgabios-cirrus.bin"
# when run w/ -vga std
qemu-kvm: pci_add_option_rom: failed to find romfile "vgabios-stdvga.bin"


Expected Results:  
vm starts up

[Comment 1 razamatan 2013-01-30 06:16:34 UTC]

--- /usr/portage/app-emulation/qemu/qemu-1.3.0.ebuild   2013-01-14 15:31:03.000000000 -0800
+++ qemu-1.3.0.ebuild   2013-01-29 22:13:23.944324707 -0800
@@ -81,11 +81,13 @@
                sys-firmware/ipxe
                ~sys-firmware/seabios-1.7.2
                ~sys-firmware/sgabios-0.1_pre8
+               ~sys-firmware/vgabios-0.7a
        )
        qemu_softmmu_targets_x86_64? (
                sys-firmware/ipxe
                ~sys-firmware/seabios-1.7.2
                ~sys-firmware/sgabios-0.1_pre8
+               ~sys-firmware/vgabios-0.7a
        )
        alsa? ( >=media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.13 )
        bluetooth? ( net-wireless/bluez )

is what i did for my overlay for the time being.

[Comment 2 razamatan 2013-01-30 06:27:12 UTC]

nvm... i'm downgrading back to 1.2.2-r2.  i got the dependency back, but qemu-1.3.0 just dies w/o even starting up.  prompt just returns after a 'Killed' is displayed.

[Comment 3 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2013-01-30 15:30:52 UTC]

Don't use masked ebuilds is the result of this. They're masked for a reason.