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
