Change boot order to avoid NICs

[L0rdRaiden]

How can I avoid this on every boot?

 

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      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/>
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      <alias name='usb'/>
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    <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'>
      <alias name='usb'/>
      <master startport='4'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x2'/>
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    <controller type='sata' index='0'>
      <alias name='ide'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1f' function='0x2'/>
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    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pcie-root'>
      <alias name='pcie.0'/>
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    <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'>
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      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
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    <controller type='pci' index='1' model='pcie-root-port'>
      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='1' port='0x10'/>
      <alias name='pci.1'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='2' model='pcie-root-port'>
      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='2' port='0x11'/>
      <alias name='pci.2'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x1'/>
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      <model name='pcie-root-port'/>
      <target chassis='3' port='0x12'/>
      <alias name='pci.3'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x2'/>
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      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x3'/>
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      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
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    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>
      <driver name='vfio'/>
      <source>
        <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x05' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/>
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      <alias name='hostdev1'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x04' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
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</domain>

 

[L0rdRaiden]

Any help here? it can't be that hard, and I can't be the only one with this issue.

 

Both nics belong to the same pcie card and they are passthrough to the VM

[Jcloud]

Your VM is not finding a bootable disk so the the guest bios is trying to PXE-boot (network boot). 

 

On 3/23/2018 at 9:39 AM, L0rdRaiden said:

<devices> <emulator>/usr/local/sbin/qemu</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/user/VMDisks/SophosXG/vdisk1.img'/>

Does that disk image have anything on it, or are you trying to build a new VM? If it's a new disk, I don't see your boot media/ISO disk. Edit your VM template and provide it an ISO for install disk. 

 

If vdisk1.img had an OS on it, which one is it?

Edited March 27, 2018 by Jcloud

[L0rdRaiden]

10 hours ago, Jcloud said:

Your VM is not finding a bootable disk so the the guest bios is trying to PXE-boot (network boot). 

 

Does that disk image have anything on it, or are you trying to build a new VM? If it's a new disk, I don't see your boot media/ISO disk. Edit your VM template and provide it an ISO for install disk. 

 

If vdisk1.img had an OS on it, which one is it?

 

The disk image is a bootable disk with SophosXG on it, it's like a firewall based on linux, I have the same issue with pfsense, which is a firewall based on FreeBSD

The pcie card is based on i350 lan chipset.

The image is bootable but the OS on both pfsense and sophos XG only start after the VM tries to boot or do whatever is trying to do with the 2 nics, which if you don't skip the process manually it takes around 3 mins or more. It tries to do it with one nic and then with the other.

[Jcloud]

Away from my unRAID box for a while. I believe  (I reserve the right to be 100% wrong lol) when you first start the VM the there's a key-press to enter inside the guest emulated bios, from there should be able to change boot order. Might have to start the VM, Open the VNC window then back in the webui force a restart of VM; that way the "monitor" is already up and you can try hitting that key-press.  Where as on the first boot, could be missing it in the time it takes to bring up the VNC window.

[L0rdRaiden]

On 3/28/2018 at 2:34 AM, Jcloud said:

Away from my unRAID box for a while. I believe  (I reserve the right to be 100% wrong lol) when you first start the VM the there's a key-press to enter inside the guest emulated bios, from there should be able to change boot order. Might have to start the VM, Open the VNC window then back in the webui force a restart of VM; that way the "monitor" is already up and you can try hitting that key-press.  Where as on the first boot, could be missing it in the time it takes to bring up the VNC window.

 

It work, somehow I was able to enter to a kind of BIOS related to PXE not Seabios and I could change the boot order, so now 1 of the nics doesn't try to boot but the other still try to do it.

I have tried to press different buttons at different times to see If I can get into a different BIOS but no luck.

 

Does SEABIOS has a bios interface?

[Shinobi]

Check this:

What I understand is that SeaBIOS does not have a graphical user interface, that we can get into during boot.

So you have edit the VM's XML file.

It appears like the relevant contents of the XML file, are passed on to SeaBIOS  during VM boot.

Edited December 28, 2020 by Shinobi

[L0rdRaiden]

This is the solution

https://askubuntu.com/a/226499