[libvirt-users] stuck in pxe loop from uefi + tianocore/ovmf

[jsl6uy js16uy]

Hello all, hope all is well
Was wondering if I'm doing something wrong/missing something.
I have pxe+tftp+uefi working between 2 vms. However after the build is
done and I reboot, I still come up to pxe b/c tianocore always starts,
from what I've seen, with trying PXE first. Great for initial builds
:) but I would like to it stop after.
In the xml I am pointing to the disk to boot first. if I virsh destory
and run qemu directly on the qcow image, the vm comes up as expected
and boots into the OS
I have tried removing the nvram under
/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/virtmachine. But the vm boots up and
starts looking for pxe again.
If I let that timeout, then type exit and select continue in the
tianocore boot firmware, I just loop back into trying pxe over ipv4
etc
I tried <rom bar='off'/> on the e1000 and that does work to stop pxe.
Then I get to the uefi shell quickly, but all I see at that point is 2
BLK maps pointing to floppy 1 and 2. I see nothing when I try to
manually add a new boot option.

any help/wisdom would be appreciated.

libvirtd (libvirt) 4.9.0

qemu command:
sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 -L /usr/share/ovmf/x64/ -bios
OVMF_CODE.fd -drive
file=/images/rdhcli02,format=qcow2,cache=writeback,if=virtio -device
virtio-net,netdev=net10,mac=52:54:00:11:22:33 -netdev
tap,id=net10,ifname=rdhcli02,script=no,downscript=no
Is there a way to address this?