The same to me, but rarely it does start only from third attempt -- PXE boot not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/588731 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU.
Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: /root/qemu-test/qemu-kvm/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -net tap,vlan=0,name=tap.0 -boot n -net nic,macaddr=$MAC,vlan=0,model=e1000,name=e1000.0 -chardev socket,id=monitor,host=0.0.0.0,port=$MONITORPORT,telnet,server,nowait -monitor chardev:monitor net0: 02:5a:3b:27:00:a1 on PCI00:03.0 (open) [Link:up, TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0] DHCP (net0 02:5a:3b:27:00:a1)................ Connection timed out (0x4c106035) No more network devices No bootable device. After doing a system_reset .... net0: 02:5a:3b:27:00:a1 on PCI00:03.0 (open) [Link:up, TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0] DHCP (net0 02:5a:3b:27:00:a1).... ok net0: 10.201.1.161/255.0.0.0 gw 10.0.0.1 Booting from filename "boot.pxe" tftp://x.x.x./boot.pxe.. ok And it magaically works. using HEAD.