Re: [Xen-devel] troubles using network boot with HVM guest

[Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, 

At 14:27 +0200 on 04 Jun (1180967227), Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> I tried to boot from network with HVM guest, using guest='n'
> configuration value. The DHCP query is correctly send to the server, and
> the answer is propagated to the virtual domain interface, as
> demonstrated by tcpdump capture (included). However, it seems the
> etherboot image included in xen isn't able to process it correctly, all
> I have is 'no ip address' error message.

:( Works fine for me.  What DHCP server are you using?  Do you have any
firewall/packet-filter/selinux/etc config in your dom0 that might be
supressing the response?

> I've googled at bit on the issue, and I found references to this discussion:
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-08/msg00009.html
> 
> if I understand correctly, PXE boot was a known issue at least 10 month
> ago... What is current status in xen 3.1 ?

That's a long time out of date.  PXE booting of HVM guests went into the 
Xen HVM BIOS/loader about six months ago.

Cheers,

Tim.

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