how to get pxe-rtl8139.bin ?
While trying to boot image with network interface card "-net nic" with this command
sudo kvm -m 256 -cdrom ubuntu-11.10-server-amd64.iso -drive file=server.img,if=scsi,index=0 -boot d -net nic -net user -nographic -vnc :0
I faced this error,
Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support pci_add_option_rom: failed to find romfile "pxe-rtl8139.bin"
I installed the QEMU-kvm under Ubuntu 11.10
and I think that this problem appears only for Ubuntu.
and here is the fix
wget -O pxe-ne2k_pci.bin http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/trunk/pc-bios/pxe-ne2k_pci.bin?root=qemu
wget -O pxe-rtl8139.bin http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/trunk/pc-bios/pxe-rtl8139.bin?root=qemu
wget -O pxe-e1000.bin http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/trunk/pc-bios/pxe-e1000.bin?root=qemu
sudo mv pxe*.bin /usr/share/qemu/