booting iPXE bootimage in a VMware guest runs into timeouts
Issue
- Trying to boot one of the bootdisks (host image or generic image) generated by Satellite in VMware does not work
- Timeouts/hangs during early network communication with the Satellite/Capsule (e.g. while fetching the iPXE configuration, the kernel or the initrd)
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite 6 (or other tools generating the iPXE bootimage)
- deployment on VMware guests
- VMware 5
- iPXE bootimage
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