From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Andrew D. Ball" Subject: Re: Xen PXE solution Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:54:40 -0400 Message-ID: <1154526880.7786.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1154357859.9876.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1154522529.20100.15.camel@aglarond.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1154522529.20100.15.camel@aglarond.local> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Jeremy Katz Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org As far as I know, the boot order option only accepts one of {'a','b','c'}. I more descriptive list like you suggested would be much, much better. Peace. Andrew On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 08:42 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 10:57 -0400, Andrew D. Ball wrote: > > I've been asked to work on a PXE solution for booting Xen domU's from a > > network, and would like some feedback and any help anyone is willing to > > provide. > > Cool > > > I've been limiting my work to HVM domU's at the moment, because I don't > > think the NBI's (as far as I know, these are bootloaders) that I have > > available work in paravirtualized domU's. Something build around the > > Linux kernel and kexec would be really cool for paravirtualized domU's. > > HVM is definitely the first step here. > > > So, I'd like to know if something like the PXE ROM's that come on most > > servers nowadays would be more useful than doing something like booting > > from PXE client ISO image. Ideally, I think the configuration may look > > something like this: > > *nod* So are you looking at integrating into the rombios? > > > (device > > (vif > > (bridge xenbr0) (mac 00:16:3e:00:00:11) (type ioemu) > > (pxe true) > > ) > > ) > > Quite possibly PXE would even default to true. > > > Then, I'm thinking the behavior would be to boot PXE on that NIC by > > default, then try other boot devices. Of course, the 'boot' option that > > currently accepts 'a','b', or 'c' could include pxe as an option, but > > it's unclear to me which order the NICs would try to boot in. Maybe all > > of the NICs with PXE ROMs in configuration order. > > I think it's definitely better to go with pxe as an option to boot and > then doing the NICs in config order. This matches up with how real > hardware works[1] > > Jeremy > > [1] Also -- does anyone know if the boot option currently take multiple > arguments? I'll have to try when I get to the office. It should be a > list and fall back through them as things aren't available so that a > default order of say PXE, CD, HD can be set up and be nice and useful :) > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel >