Control: severity -1 serious 23.01.2017 15:40, Charles Malaheenee wrote: > Package: ipxe-qemu > Version: 1.0.0+git-20161027.b991c67-1 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream > > Dear Maintainer, > > It's not possible to PXE boot in QEMU at all. When we choose --pxe option in > virt-install (or virt-manager), the machine moves to a paused state > immediately after the 'starting PXE rom execution...' message appears. > > More information can be found here: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1623276/ > > As mentioned at the link above, build a new version from git > (http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2016-November/005244.html) solves > the problem.
If that's the case, it's a serious issue, since this package mostly becomes useless. I can't verify it now since I don't have any pxe-capable environmet here, but it looks like it's real. Oh well. Thanks, /mjt
