Why RHEV guests fails when booting via PXE + dnsmasq?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Trying to PXE boot from RHEV-Virtual Client and get the following error:

    server.example.com local udp port pxe unreachable, length 429
    
    No filename or root path specified
    

    Remote Viewer showing "No bootable device."

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.x
  • PXE environment where dhcp is managed by dnsmasq

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