Hi Stefan,

The issue is we never tested this device with iPXE, so according to
Murphy's law it cannot work :).
We'll take a look...

Dmitry.

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dmitry,
> QEMU vmxnet3 produces the following warning with iPXE
> (77f64b11f764e721f4f8704b7b90317e52d85fc3):
>
> $ cd ~/ipxe/src
> $ make bin/vmxnet3.rom
> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -netdev user,id=netdev0 -device
> vmxnet3,netdev=netdev0,romfile=bin/vmxnet3.rom
> [vmxnet3][WR][vmxnet3_peer_has_vnet_hdr]: Peer has no virtio
> extension. Task offloads will be emulated.
> [vmxnet3][WR][vmxnet3_get_command_status]: Received request for
> unknown command: cafe0002
>
> The warning about virtio extensions is expected since I chose slirp
> networking.
>
> iPXE does not show the NIC ('ifstat' command).  I guess the driver
> gave up during initialization:
>
> https://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/blob/HEAD:/src/drivers/net/vmxnet3.c#l613
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Stefan
>
> PS: I discovered this when testing net patches for the pull request I
> just sent out.  It's not a blocker, so vmxnet3 will finally be in
> qemu.git/master very soon!
>