[Bug 819486] Re: cannot boot from network - roms missing

[Michal Suchanek]

The package that requires the roms (qemu-system or qemu-kvm in this
case) should recommend or suggest the package that contains them.

I looked in the man page and I found no information about installing
roms whatsoever. If it is supposed to be helpful in this regard it
should mention the location where the roms are searched by qemu and kvm
(I had to use strace to determine that). This is obviously an upstream
issue.

Once this is resolved it is much easier to search for the roms in
packages by filename or a note could be added which package provides the
the roms in Ubuntu.

It seems the roms do not need to be padded with recent qemu. I used some
guide that recommended it but qemu in Debian uses the ipxe roms directly
without any issues.


Thanks

Michal

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