From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: troubles using network boot with HVM guest Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:20:55 -0500 Message-ID: <46642DD7.9020304@codemonkey.ws> References: <4664051B.7050900@inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4664051B.7050900@inria.fr> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Guillaume Rousse Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Hello. > > 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. > > I've tried both bridging and routing network setup, without differences. > I also tried non-default interface models ('ne2k_pci' results in 'no > bootable device found' error message, and 'pcnet32' result in a domain > unavailable through vnc). > > 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 ? What are you trying to pxeboot? I've heard of people having issues booting some versions of syslinux with etherboot. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel