Provide a way to disable ROM loading completely for a device
Issue
- libvirt: Provide a way to disable
ROM
loading completely for a device - Currently it's not possible to use
virsh attach-interface
onrombar-less
installations.QEMU
errors out with, e.g.
error: Failed to attach interface
error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'device_add': failed to find romfile "pxe-virtio.rom"
- Attempting
virsh attach-device
instead with the following xml
<interface type='bridge'>
<source bridge='br0'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<rom bar='off'/>
</interface>
- fails with
error: Failed to attach device from interface.xml
error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'device_add': Hot-plugged device without ROM bar can't have an option ROM
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3
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