It seems qemu now uses "bios-256k.bin" not "bios.bin" as evidenced by deleting it resulting in "qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios-256k.bin'" error. It also of course completely ignores "bios.bin" built by installing "sys-firmware/seabios" package with "USE=-binary". I noticed this while having "2.8.0-r10" installed and trying to build seabios with "-binary" use flag and noticing it doesn't use my newly built version, i upgraded to latest stable "2.8.1-r2", and it sill didn't work. So i decided to look through ebuild and found where it deletes shipped bios.bin and makes a symlink to gentoo package one, i then found that in the qemu install dir /usr/share/qemu has a "bios-256k.bin" and that turning that into symlink that points to "bios.bin" solves the problem.
Thanks for the report - was already working on firmware updates. :-) This is fixed in qemu-2.9.0-r52 (which will be keyworded soon after some final firmware udpates) and seabios-1.10.2. commit d41ea0c87bdb4eaf82a23ae97a0cc6de95ff50b9 Author: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> Date: Wed May 3 17:55:56 2017 -0500 app-emulation/qemu: update to seabios 1.10.2 - pin seabios-1.10.2 - remove bundled bios-256k.bin, bug #617422 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.5, Repoman-2.3.2 commit 4e90970dc09d444ff3277a68ea676e0536fc1aa0 Author: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> Date: Wed May 3 17:52:28 2017 -0500 sys-firmware/seabios: version bump to 1.10.2 - port to EAPI 6 - also build/install bios-256k.bin, bug #617422 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.5, Repoman-2.3.2
Please give qemu-2.9.0-r52 a try (make sure to shut down guests prior to upgrading).
(In reply to Matthias Maier from comment #2) > Please give qemu-2.9.0-r52 a try (make sure to shut down guests prior to > upgrading). Wow that was fast, i was already sleeping :p. Anyway it works great now, also i see pin-upstream-blobs now requires seabios with binary use flag, which i guess makes sense, no idea why i had it set anyway. Thanks!
