[Bug 1250640] [NEW] instance start completed with qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios.bin' after update

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After Openstack update from  Grizzy to Havana could not start new
instance.

cat /var/log/libvirt/qemu/instance-0000002b.log
char device redirected to /dev/pts/1
qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios.bin'
2013-11-12 19:44:43.468+0000: shutting down

As workaround I have installed seabios package and copy files
cp /usr/share/seabios/*bin /usr/share/qemu-kvm/
Single bios.bin file is not enough because after VNC connection instance failed. 

Installed packages
seabios                          1.7.3-1~cloud1 
nova-compute-kvm                 1:2013.2-0ubuntu1~cloud0                    OpenStack Compute - compute node (KVM)
qemu-kvm                         1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.12                     Full virtualization on i386 and amd64 hardware
kvm                              1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu16+1.0+noroms+0ubuntu14.12 dummy transitional package from kvm to qemu-kvm

Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
Release:        12.04
Codename:       precise


During startup log /var/log/nova/nova-compute.log  file contains
2013-11-12 08:43:54.041 15190 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.driver [req-8a518dbd-1029-467b-a1fa-892e002a3855 23f87cc1efc54d7988508b1c9616ab3d 75f1bbf50b0b45b7ab7f597b094abbee] An error occurred while trying to launch a defined domain with xml: <domain type='kvm'>
2013-11-12 08:43:54.042 15190 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 6848bf35-608e-4dec-9377-440c5c794487]   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/tpool.py", line 139, in proxy_call
2013-11-12 08:43:54.042 15190 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 6848bf35-608e-4dec-9377-440c5c794487]     rv = execute(f,*args,**kwargs)
2013-11-12 08:43:54.042 15190 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 6848bf35-608e-4dec-9377-440c5c794487]   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/tpool.py", line 77, in tworker
2013-11-12 08:43:54.042 15190 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 6848bf35-608e-4dec-9377-440c5c794487]     rv = meth(*args,**kwargs)
2013-11-12 08:43:54.042 15190 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 6848bf35-608e-4dec-9377-440c5c794487]   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 728, in createWithFlags
2013-11-12 08:43:54.042 15190 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 6848bf35-608e-4dec-9377-440c5c794487]     if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreateWithFlags() failed', dom=self)
2013-11-12 08:43:54.042 15190 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 6848bf35-608e-4dec-9377-440c5c794487] libvirtError: Unable to read from monitor: Connection reset by peer

** Affects: seabios (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: libvirt
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instance start completed with qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios.bin' after update
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1250640
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