How do I disable unwanted iPXE boot attempt in Libvirt/qemu-kvm?

Posted by gertvdijk on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by gertvdijk
Published on 2012-09-20T13:39:42Z Indexed on 2012/09/23 15:49 UTC
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Somehow after upgrading to 12.04, my virtual machines always boot with an attempt to boot from the network first. See this:

virt-manager screenshot

while I don't have any PXE configuration set:

PXE boot configuration

I've tried:

  • to disable SPICE, by changing the emulator to /usr/bin/kvm from /usr/bin/kvm-spice by editing the XML.
  • Ctrl+B to configure the iPXE, but it doesn't let disable this as a boot option.
  • setting another type of NIC - not an option, I need virtio for performance reasons. However, e1000e doesn't work either.
  • removing the NIC: works. However, I need network.
  • Googling around. Hard. Lots of result is about failing configured PXE boots.

Not a big issue, but it increases boot times by 50-100% here (booting from SSD), so it's relatively long and annoys me.

How can I disable this and boot from virtual hard disk directly?

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