From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Duffy Subject: etherboot unusably slow w/ kvm-74, current head Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:44:17 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:49641 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751544AbYIBVor (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 17:44:47 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Kadg1-0006zj-Vl for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:44:42 +0000 Received: from rrcs-71-41-149-67.sw.biz.rr.com ([71.41.149.67]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:44:41 +0000 Received: from Charles_Duffy by rrcs-71-41-149-67.sw.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:44:41 +0000 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Per subject; etherboot is requiring tens of minutes just to partially download pxelinux.0: Probing pci nic... [e1000-82540em]Ethernet addr: 00:16:3E:ED:DA:6A Searching for server (DHCP)...... Me: 169.254.1.254, DHCP: 192.168.66.1, TFTP: 169.254.0.1, Gateway 169.254.0.1 Loading 169.254.0.1:/pxelinux.0 ...... While the above snippet is from e1000, the same occurs with rtl8139. If anyone has a handle one what this might be, I'd be very interested to hear it; otherwise, I may pull my PXE bisecting scripts back out of the closet and give them a shot.