Comment 6 for bug 819486

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