Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 KVM Guests Fail to PXE boot on power up on RHEL 6 KVM Host

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Issue

  • RHEL-5.4 O/S KVM guests fail to PXE boot upon power up.
  • Guest PXE boot suceeds after a soft reset (via the Ctrl-Alt-Del key combination) in the  VNC based console.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6) KVM Host
  • NFS based RHEL 5.4 Guests

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