[Qemu-devel] Re: Need a way disable gPXE boot

[Sebastian Herbszt]

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