Start QEMU error: qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios-256k.bin''

[DanniellaL]

When I start qemu with the command: virsh define xmlexample.xml, then I met the error:
Unable to complete install: 'internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios-256k.bin''

I find the related files, and none of them is link file:
/root/kvm-vmi/qemu/pc-bios/bios-256k.bin
/usr/share/seabios/bios-256k.bin
/usr/local/share/qemu/bios-256k.bin

I tried to use qemu args to set bios directory,while the error is still exist:
xml file details:

qemu:commandline
<qemu:arg value='-L'/>
<qemu:arg value='/usr/local/share/qemu/'/>
<qemu:arg value='-chardev'/>
<qemu:arg value='socket,path=/tmp/introspector,id=chardev0,reconnect=10'/>
<qemu:arg value='-object'/>
<qemu:arg value='introspection,id=kvmi,chardev=chardev0'/>
</qemu:commandline>
0_ubuntu
2048
2048
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hvm








<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>destroy</on_crash>

/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64


[rob-scheepens]

I got a similar error:

[root@N-0106-1-D ~]# virsh start 558506d7-f422-481e-8a55-eb8c9c3b41d9
error: Failed to start domain '558506d7-f422-481e-8a55-eb8c9c3b41d9'
error: internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the monitor: qemu: could not load PC BIOS '/usr/share/qemu/pc-bios/bios-256k.bin'

I tried adding loader to the xml like this:

    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc'>hvm</type>
    <loader>/usr/share/qemu/pc-bios/bios-256k.bin</loader>
    <boot dev='hd'/>

The error remains.