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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Need a way disable gPXE boot
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To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Theodore Ts'o wrote:

[snip]

> I was ultimately able to work around the solution by deleting the
> /usr/local/share/qemu/pxe-*.bin files, but that's a bit of a botch.  It
> would be nice if there was a way to disable the gPXE boot option roms;
> if you know you are booting off of a passed in hard drive image or
> passed in a kernel for a direct boot, there's no reason why we might
> want to do a gPXE boot.
> 
> It would be nice if there was a way to disable option roms automatically
> if -kernel is specified, or if -boot order doesn't include 'n', or
> perhaps with an explicit option to suppress all boot option roms (or all
> networking options).
> 
> What sort of approach would be considered acceptable?  Did I miss
> some way of making the right thing happen other than deleting the
> installed pxe-*.bin files?

I would suggest dropping the auto nic option rom loading and extend "-net"
with a rom option like "-net nic,model=e1000,rom=pxe-e1000.bin".

- Sebastian