That particular message is benign, as Serge says.
You can silence it by adding the 'suggested' package, kvm-pxe:
$ sudo apt-get install kvm-pxe
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[kvm] pci_add_option_rom: failed to find romfile "pxe-virtio.bin"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/622588
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Dominic: the error did appear on lucid as well (if kvm-pxe was not
installed). I would prefer that the message wasn't printed, but kvm
does work fine without it, so making kvm-pxe a dependency for kvm
doesn't seem appropriate. And in the interest of minimizing the delta
from upstream, I prefer n
@Dominic, Is that the only issue you are experiencing? Just the verbose
warning?
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[kvm] pci_add_option_rom: failed to find romfile "pxe-virtio.bin"
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You may be correct that it is an innocuous error, (I'm not using PXE
boot on my VMs so don't see any otherwise missing functionality) but
afaik it never used to appear on lucid and now appears on maverick
packages of kvm so its technically a regression.
Having investigated the issue further it see
Thanks for reporting this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The
error you show is an innocuous one which has shown up (at least on
my machines) for a long time. What happens after on your machine?
Does the VM continue to boot? If not, where does it stop? If there
is never any console outpu
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/622588/+attachment/1512301/+files/BootDmesg.txt
** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/622588/+attachment/1512302/+files/CurrentDmesg.txt
** Attachment added: "Lspci.txt"
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