Re: [Qemu-devel] Using iPXE with older qemu releases?

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 02:22:21PM -0500, Kenton Cabiness wrote:
> Is there a way to point an older qemu release (currently running
> qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.16) to iPXE products?
> 
> We have built iPXE and installed the files and tested by changing
> the symbolic links in /usr/share/qemu-kvm (RH6.1 system) to point to
> the iPXE files.  We would like to package the files in an RPM for
> installation on several machines, but since the links are owned by
> the qemu-kvm package, we cant have the iPXE package overwrite them.
> 
> Is there a command line argument to qemu to point to a different
> directory for iPXE?  I've been looking through the code but can't
> find what tells qemu where to pick up the files.

Try -device virtio-net-pci,romfile=/path/to/ipxe.rom,... as part of your
command-line.  If you have trouble getting this working, please post
your full command-line.

Alternatively use -option-rom /path/to/ipxe.rom.  Either method should
work.

Stefan