Bug 473137

Summary: virtio PXE rom too large - Too many option ROMS
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: James Laska <jlaska>
Component: kvmAssignee: Glauber Costa <gcosta>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 10CC: berrange, bkearney, bpeck, clalance, crobinso, gcosta, jturner, k.georgiou, markmc, mikolaj, virt-maint
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Description James Laska 2008-11-26 18:34:25 UTC
Cloned from bug#472236 to address not being able to boot a guest with multiple boot targets.  For example:

# virsh dumpxml vguest1 | grep "<boot"
    <boot dev='network'/>
    <boot dev='hd'/>

# virsh start vguest1
libvir: QEMU error : internal error QEMU quit during monitor startup
error: Failed to start domain vguest1

# cat /var/log/libvirt/qemu/vguest1.log 
/usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -m 1024 -smp 2 -name vguest1 -monitor pty -boot nc
-drive file=/dev/VolGroup00/vguest1,if=ide,index=0,boot=on -drive
file=,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2 -net
nic,macaddr=54:52:00:55:c8:17,vlan=0,model=virtio -net
tap,fd=14,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet2 -serial pty -parallel none -usb -vnc
127.0.0.1:3 -k en-us 
char device redirected to /dev/pts/8
char device redirected to /dev/pts/9
Too many option ROMS

The problem has been best described by gcosta below ...

--- Additional comment from gcosta on 2008-11-26 12:57:58 EDT ---

I believe the problem itself is very simple (although I don't really know a good solution without thinking a little bit...)

there's only 64k of memory available for option roms, and the virtio rom that ships with our packages is... 64k in size!. So after loading the virtio PXE option rom, we're unable to keep loading option roms, in particular, the extboot option rom we need to kick out virtio boots. ;-(

James said he could boot with an older rom I handled to him, which is 32k in size,
and the problem os "Too many option ROMS" went away.

However, he was still unable to boot from the local target, despite of the fact that he could do a local boot by pressing "q" 

So we really have two problems in here:

The first one is that we cannot boot from our current virtio ROM, because it is too large. We can try to quick fix it by building smaller images. This should be a new BZ agains the etherboot package.

And the other, the fact that roms do not honor the local target. For that, I believe we can keep using this BZ.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2008-11-27 13:53:16 UTC
etherboot-5.4.4-5.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/etherboot-5.4.4-5.fc10

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-12-03 01:26:02 UTC
etherboot-5.4.4-5.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update etherboot'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2008-10657

Comment 3 Mikolaj Kucharski 2009-04-02 23:41:07 UTC
Update to etherboot-roms-kvm-5.4.4-5.fc10.i386 resolved problem for me. See bug#491515 comment #4 and #5

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