Description of problem: When /usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin loads (either if specified as -option-rom, or when -boot string contains 'n' is present) there's no "Network" choice in F10 menu, and the code from the ROM is unconditionally executed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kvm-64 Additional info: This breaks situations when user wants to have boot from network available (selectable via F10 menu), but default to boot from network. Examples are "-boot cn" (this one can be produced by libvirt) or "-boot c -option-rom /usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin"
Hmmm, something from the e1000 pxe rom must be different. As the option rom definitely shouldn't get called unconditionally. And there's nothing special casing it afaict from a quick look through kvm.
Jeremy I was attempting to rebuild the option rom, but was not able to find neither sources nor configuration file used to generate one that was shipped in the package. Do we ship a blob here? Also, I generated a rom from gPXE project and it worked (nearly, that is it had a default DHCP timeout somewhat shorter) all well. I'm thinking whether we should package etherboot or gPXE separately providin rom images for selected NICs and let qemu/kvm use those?
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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I believe this was reworked in F11.