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Re: [Qemu-devel] Using iPXE with older qemu releases?
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Using iPXE with older qemu releases? |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:23:03 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
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