I created a new KVM host last night, and was greeted with the error “Too many option ROMS” during initialization:
$ /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -m 512 -smp 1 -name kvmnode1 -boot n -drive file=/bits/vms/kvmnode1,if=ide,index=0,boot=on -net nic,macaddr=54:52:00:53:20:00 -net tap,script=/bits/bin/qemu-ifup -serial pty -monitor pty
Setting the tunnel interface to up
Adding the tunnel interface to br0
char device redirected to /dev/pts/1
Too many option ROMS
It turns out this is Redhat bug 473137, which is fixed in the latest etherboot package. If you are running Fedora, you can install this from the testing repository.