[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] pxe support
maybe i explain a bit more what i try to do, may be you are right and all this exists ... i want to configure _somewhere_ in a central repository all information's for all my domU's using the mac as reference, so my domU will look like this : name = "rhel4-1" memory = "256" vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=00:16:3e:20:2b:7d, bridge=xenbr0', ] in my "central repository" what ever that will be i want to specify the following : ip = "192.168.0.230" netmask = "255.255.255.0" gateway = "192.168.0.1" hostname = "rhel4-1" root = "/dev/nfs" nfs_server = "192.168.0.1" nfs_root = "/nfsroots/rhel4-1" now i have a bunch of dom0 systems that boot up and run various xm creates each domU should now make a "broadcast" in the net and based on the mac it gets all the infos i stored in the repository and boots up the system over nfs. i don't want to story _anything_ on the dom0 as i want to boot them as well over pxe, cd or from usb and the domU config files this node will start are created at boot time with a shell script based on some info's the dom0 retrieves at boot time. Sven Xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/18/2007 11:45:03 AM: > On Thursday 18 January 2007 10:01, Tim Deegan wrote: > > At 13:15 -0600 on 17 Jan (1169039714), Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > Sven Oehme wrote: > > > >Hi, > > > > > > > >i saw a bunch of patches from Anthony adding pxe support to qemu. will > > > >that end in xen at some point , or is it already in ? > > > >i searched in the archives and also the source but couldn't find > > > >anything .. > > > > > > It should be there. The QEMU patches were inspired by Tim's Xen > > > patches. I've seen a few commits that have disabled/enabled Option ROM > > > loading which would prevent the etherboot ROM from getting loaded. > > > > > > Should PXE booting work ATM Tim? > > > > Works for me in -unstable. Give the guest a vif, and choose boot=n. > > There's no explicit PXE support needed in Xen. All what you need is a > bootmanager, which passes a multiboot header to Xen. That's all. > > PXE bootmanagers which support multiboot are PXELinux and PXEGrub > (I'm aware of these two. I don't know if there are more.). > Both work fine for me. I use them regularly for development/testing. > > It makes more fun to build a kernel and boot it from network. It saves > me a double reboot. > > Christoph > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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