From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Christoph Egger" Subject: Re: pxe support Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:45:03 +0100 Message-ID: <200701181145.03863.Christoph.Egger@amd.com> References: <45AE75C2.6030105@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20070118090144.GE18763@york.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070118090144.GE18763@york.uk.xensource.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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