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Bug 546016

Summary:	etherboot: allow gpxe/etherboot to be selected at configuration time
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost>
Component:	etherboot	Assignee:	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.5	CC:	kxiong, llim
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	etherboot-5.4.4-13.el5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
Clones:	546475 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2010-03-30 08:19:56 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	546019, 546475

Description Eduardo Habkost 2009-12-09 19:59:05 UTC

gpxe is going to be packaged for RHEL5, but we need to make KVM able to use the gpxe ROMs. The planned solution for this is to make both etherboot and gpxe publish files on a /usr/share/qemu-pxe-roms directory, and make KVM symlink to files on that directory.

So, the changes required are:

1) Make etherboot-zroms-kvm provide files on /usr/share/qemu-pxe-roms (probably symlinks, to keep older KVM packages working)
2) Add "Provides: pxe-zroms-kvm" to etherboot-zroms-kvm
3) Change KVM to use the new path and new requires for pxe-zroms-kvm

Comment 1 Eduardo Habkost 2009-12-11 12:16:29 UTC

The plan changed slightly: we are going to allow gpxe/etherboot to be selected using update-alternatives. See bug 546475 for the RHEV-H feature that will use this.

Comment 4 koka xiong 2009-12-22 09:25:12 UTC

Verified with 
etherboot-5.4.4-13.el5
gpxe-0.9.7-8.el5
kvm-83-138.el5
on 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Server x86_64 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Client x86_64 
steps:
1.Run update-alternatives --config qemu-pxe-roms
the output:
There are 2 programs which provide 'qemu-pxe-roms'.

  Selection    Command
-----------------------------------------------
*+ 1           /usr/share/etherboot
   2           /usr/share/gpxe
2.Select the first one,the guest can install from etherboot
3.Select the second one,the guest can install from gpxe
4.Testing the MS WDS,the guest can install from gpxe,but the etherboot don't support MS WDS.

Verified is passed.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2010-03-30 08:19:56 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/RHBA-2010-0227.html