other: 0.806
instruction: 0.766
device: 0.755
network: 0.747
vnc: 0.635
socket: 0.629
mistranslation: 0.619
semantic: 0.591
boot: 0.505
graphic: 0.379
assembly: 0.307
KVM: 0.253

BIOS doesn't load when read() returns less than the full ROM length

When qemu is running over a 9p filesystem (e.g. when running underneath -virtfs of another qemu), and probably some other network filesystems, it fails to read its BIOS image.  This is because it uses a single low-level read() call on the bios.bin, asking for the full file.  However read() may return less than the full length, and it's the caller's responsibility to call it repeatedly if necessary.  When read does come up short, qemu doesn't repeat the call, and reports an error instead.  The attached patch fixes the one problem I saw, but I haven't tried to cover the general case (e.g. extension ROMs).



This seems to have been fixed by commit 1f40547f5ce0c135faa7d14f066b97002fd8c204.

Fix included in QEMU v4.0.0.