Bug 550053

Summary: require newer etherboot package that is compatible with new pxe ROM paths
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost>
Component: kvmAssignee: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 5.5CC: juzhang, llim, ndai, tburke, virt-maint, ykaul
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Fixed In Version: kvm-83-146.el5 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Eduardo Habkost 2009-12-23 12:34:02 UTC 
Found while testing bug #546019:


Comment #11 From lihuang (lihuang) 2009-12-23 07:12:05 EDT (-) [reply]   Private
(In reply to comment #8)
> Actually, I will change KVM to require only 'etherboot' back. Users of gpxe
> will need to install both etherboot and gpxe on their system, but that's a
> limitation of yum/RPM that doesn't allow us to define a default package for a
> virtual dependency.
> 
> This change will be added:
> 
> -# We need PXE roms provided by gpxe or etherboot
> -Requires: pxe-zroms-kvm
> +# We need PXE roms from either gpxe or etherboot, but we want etherboot
> +# by default.
> +# yum pulls gpxe because its name is shorter (!) if we require the
> +# pxe-roms-qemu virtual package, so we need an explicit etherboot
> +# dependency here, unfortunately.
> +Requires: etherboot-zroms-kvm  

lihuang -> Eduardo

/usr/share/qemu-pxe-roms is provided by etherboot-zroms-kvm >= 5.4.4-13

should we point out here ?

on my 5.4, I have 5.4.4-10 installed. so there is no error when updating kvm to
83-140,but the symbolic link is broken.
.qa.[root@lihuang kvm]# file /usr/share/kvm/pxe-rtl8139.bin 
/usr/share/kvm/pxe-rtl8139.bin: broken symbolic link to
`../qemu-pxe-roms/rtl8139.zrom'
and then pxe boot failed .


Thanks 
Lijun Huang
Comment 1 Cao, Chen 2009-12-29 10:23:39 UTC 
*** Bug 549315 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 juzhang 2010-01-22 08:36:13 UTC 
Reproduced on on kvm-83-140.el5.
verified on kvm-83-147.el5.

Steps:
1,[root@localhost kvm147]# rpm -Uvh *
error: Failed dependencies:
        etherboot-zroms-kvm >= 5.4.4-13.el5 is needed by kvm-83-147.el5.x86_64
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2010-03-30 07:56:06 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0271.html