Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Making pxe working in the "NAT" mode

[Erwan Velu <erwan.velu@free.fr>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Hi Erwan,
>
> I really like the idea of your patch.  Of course, the hard coding is 
> not really reasonable :-)  Also, PXE is an x86-ism.  What you've 
> really done is added a mechanism to publish a BOOTP name.  We do need 
> to add a new option too as one may want to use -boot n without 
> publishing a BOOTP filename.
>
> Using your patch as a basis, I've written three patches.  The first 
> one is the tsize negotiation fix for the TFTP server.  The second adds 
> a -bootp option for specifying the location of the BOOTP image.  The 
> third changes the -tftp option to take root directory.  The end 
> result, is that now you can say:
>
> qemu -hda /tmp/a.img -boot n -tftp ~/tftpboot -bootp /pxelinux.0
>
> And you get the same results without the hard coding.  What do you think?

I just love it, you exactly did the stuff I didn't knew how to do. It 
just push a turn a simple Proof-of-concept into a "ready-to-use" feature.
Thanks a lot for you excellent work, I hope now this patch could be 
integrated upstream for allowing people to use PXE in qemu without the 
need of knowing how to configure the dhcp/tftp and bridging stuff.

One more time, thanks anthony for this patches.