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Description of problem:

VMware ESXi 6.0.0 5050593
Trying to boot a Satellite 6 bootdisk containing iPXE 20160127-5.git6366fa7a.el7 hangs during fetch of the kickstart file when E1000 NIC is used. Works fine on vmxnet3.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ipxe-bootimgs-20160127-5.git6366fa7a.el7.noarch (from rhel-7-server-rpms)

How reproducible:
randomly

Steps to Reproduce:
1. generate a bootdisk in Sat6
2. boot it on vmware with e1000 nic

Actual results:
machine hangs when transfering data

Expected results:
data is fetched fine

Additional info:

Could that be related to that? https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1990993

Here is a copy of the content of that link,

Issue:
Trying to boot one of the bootdisks (host image or generic image) generated by Satellite in VMware does not work
Timeouts/hangs during early network communication with the Satellite/Capsule (e.g. while fetching the iPXE configuration, the kernel or the initrd)

Resolution:
VMXNET3 network cards should be used for the VMware guest system.

Root Cause:
gPXE sometimes has problems with various emulated E1000 and similar cards, compatible types should be used. Possibly other emulated VMware network cards are affected.

based on comment 3, this seems like notabug to me.  Please reopen if that is not the case.