pxe boot does not work with qemu 1.7 (also tested with latest code from master).
# kvm -m 1024 -net nic -net tap simply hangs at: iPXE (PCI 00:03.0) starting execution... and I get the following output: # kvm -m 1024 -net nic -net tap KVM: unknown exit, hardware reason 80000021 EAX=00000011 EBX=00000000 ECX=00000030 EDX=00007baa ESI=c00e006a EDI=00098bf0 EBP=00000000 ESP=00007baa EIP=00000215 EFL=00010006 [-----P-] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0 ES =0030 0009cf30 ffffffff 0000f300 DPL=3 DS16 [-WA] CS =9c7c 0009c7e0 0000ffff 00009b00 DPL=0 CS16 [-RA] SS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300 DPL=0 DS16 [-WA] DS =0030 0009cf30 ffffffff 0000f300 DPL=3 DS16 [-WA] FS =0030 0009cf30 ffffffff 0000f300 DPL=3 DS16 [-WA] GS =0030 0009cf30 ffffffff 0000f300 DPL=3 DS16 [-WA] LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200 DPL=0 LDT TR =0000 feffd000 00002088 00008b00 DPL=0 TSS32-busy GDT= 0009cf40 00000037 IDT= 00000000 0000ffff CR0=00000011 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000 DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000 DR3=0000000000000000 DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400 EFER=0000000000000000 Code=66 0f 01 16 10 00 66 0f 01 1e 48 00 0f 20 c0 0c 01 0f 22 c0 <66> ea a4 00 00 00 08 00 0f 20 c0 24 fe 0f 22 c0 ff 2e 4e 00 2e a1 ac 06 8e d8 8e c0 8e e0 this is using RHEL6 kernel 358.23.2.el6 any ideas?