presense of kvm-ipxe slows down kvm non-network boot
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ipxe (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
$ kvm -boot order=c /tmp/disk.img -curses
you'll see somthing like:
|
| SeaBIOS (version pre-0.6.
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| iPXE (http://
| Press Ctrl-B to configure iPXE (PCI 00:03.0)...
That sits there for 2 to 3 seconds (per NIC), and slows boot down
by that much.
You can work around this by:
$ ( rm -Rf x && mkdir x && cd x && ln -sf /usr/share/
$ kvm -boot order=c -L x -curses
which basically just makes kvm think there are no pxe boot roms, which would be found in /usr/share/
I'd like some way to skip that configure step, since I am explicitly not booting from pxe.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: kvm-ipxe 1.0.0+git-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 24 16:38:01 2012
Dependencies:
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ipxe
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-07 (78 days ago)
Related branches
description: | updated |
Changed in ipxe (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Looks like this is done in assembly by ipxe at
./arch/ i386/prefix/ romprefix. S
Do you have any suggestion for how to best change this? We could just set ROM_BANNER_TIMEOUT to 0 in our builds, then but users could never hit ctrl-b. Not that I'm convined they ever will. We could devide the timeout by 3 to make it more tolerable.