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
