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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:55:28 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] proposal : use gpxe roms in upstream qemu
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To: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Glauber Costa wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> For a while now, we are using gpxe instead of etherboot in fedora's qemu, with strong success.
> etherboot is currently deprecated, and gpxe offers a lot of interesting features, like iscsi
> initiator support, besides being actively maintained. I even think with some effort we may be
> able to get rid of extboot by using gpxe infrastructure to initiate virtio disks.
>
> I propose we do the same in upstream qemu. To properly use it, there are a number of qemu, bochs bios
> and kernel (in kvm case) fixes needed. But they are fairly old at this point in time, and had more than
> enough time to spread around.
>
> I've put the roms we are using in http://glommer.net/gpxe if people want to test it. They are built
> from gpxe 0.9.7 without any patches, so it should be very very straightforward to reproduce. One can
> also grab .rom files from rom-o-matic.net
>   

One problem with this is that gpxe does not work with the builtin tftp 
server.  If I do:

x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -hda ~/imag/linux.img -snapshot -L 
~/git/qemu/pc-bios -boot n -bootp /pxelinux.0 -tftp /tftpboot

I get a tftp server does not support tsize option.


Regards,

Anthony Liguori