Required for kvm package to support network card emulation
Package approved by Juan Quintela at bug #488610. What's next?
etherboot-5.4.4-9.el5 is on CVS and built on Brew.
RHEA-2009:8451-01 was rejected. a separated advisory for etherboot will be filed.
Release note added. If any revisions are required, please set the "requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: "Etherboot is used by KVM to provide PXE booting capabilities for guest virtual machines. Support for etherboot is limited to it's usage in the KVM context. Etherboot may be rebased at a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 release"
Release note updated. If any revisions are required, please set the "requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1,2 +1 @@ -"Etherboot is used by KVM to provide PXE booting capabilities for guest virtual machines. Support for etherboot is limited to it's usage in the +"Etherboot provides PXE booting capabilities to guest virtual machines, it runs before the OS is loaded and sometimes the OS has no knowledge that it was booted through PXE. Support for etherboot is limited to it's usage in the KVM context. Etherboot may be rebased at a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 release. gPxe works too, in tech preview mode without an rpm by using the -option-rom cmdline"-KVM context. Etherboot may be rebased at a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 release"
Checked on rhev-h beta9.1. # rpm -qa|grep etherboot etherboot-zroms-kvm-5.4.4-10.el5 #rpm -ql etherboot-zroms-kvm-5.4.4-10.el5 /usr/share/etherboot /usr/share/etherboot/e1000-82542.zrom /usr/share/etherboot/ne.zrom /usr/share/etherboot/pcnet32.zrom /usr/share/etherboot/rtl8139.zrom /usr/share/etherboot/virtio-net.zrom Using every zrom in that package to test qemu nic boot,they all work well. This package was added and works. So change status to verified.
Release note updated. If any revisions are required, please set the "requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1 +1 @@ -"Etherboot provides PXE booting capabilities to guest virtual machines, it runs before the OS is loaded and sometimes the OS has no knowledge that it was booted through PXE. Support for etherboot is limited to it's usage in the KVM context. Etherboot may be rebased at a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 release. gPxe works too, in tech preview mode without an rpm by using the -option-rom cmdline"+the <filename>etherboot</filename> package has been added in this update, providing the capability to boot guest virtual machines using the Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE). This process occurs before the OS is loaded and sometimes the OS no knowledge that it was booted through PXE. Support for etherboot is limited to usage in the KVM context.
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/RHEA-2009-1276.html