Re: bug 929983: ipxe-qemu: virtio booting no longer works after upgrade to buster

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

05.05.2022 13:47, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> [CC-ing src:debian-edu and src:qemu as they pull in src:ipxe-qemu into the key package set, so I consider them stakeholders in this RC bug.]
>
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:29:55 +0100 (CET) Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> wrote:
> > So we now know without fail that there’s a change in the ipxe-qemu
> > binary package, introduced between jessie and stretch, that breaks
> > netbooting on virtio NICs for at least some qemu machine models in
> > use by libvirt guests.
>
> Is there any progress on this front? It would be a shame if we have to <stable>-ignore the bug again for bookworm.

Well, there's no progress in there, -
I weren't aware of this issue is still occurs on bookworm.

I don't have a netboot environment handy to test it, either.

Help?

/mjt