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qemu (1:7.2+dfsg-7) unstable; urgency=medium
* d/control: qemu-system-xen: add ipxe-qemu dependency (#1035676)
When installing qemu-system-xen on a new system, the boot roms are
not installed. Unfortunately this means HVM Xen DomUs can not be used
at all, because the boot roms are hard requiriment for qemu since 2014,
it fails to start without the boot roms even if (network) booting is
not requested.
Before bookworm, when qemu-system-xen was part of regular
qemu-system-x86 package, the dependency on ipxe-qemu was coming from
that package. But when splitting qemu-system-xen out of it, we forgot
that the boot roms are hard dependency now. This makes qemu-system-xen
unusable on a new install until ipxe-qemu is installed too.
An alternative would be to revert upstream commit 178e785fb
(from 2014) to make rom loading failure a non-fatal error.
-- Michael Tokarev <email address hidden> Sun, 14 May 2023 11:29:12 +0300
