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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
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On 07/15/10 12:26, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:09 PM, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is it possible to run qemu with a netboot image -- something created by
>> mknbi? If so any notes on how to do that?
> 
> Yes, QEMU ships with a gPXE network boot ROM.  Previously it shipped
> with a legacy Etherboot boot ROM.
> 
> You can use the -boot n command-line option to enable the network bootloader.

I've tried that without success. DHCP is configured, and it gets an IP
address just fine. From there it's not clear what to do.

For pxe boot I tell it to load pxelinux.0. After that it retrieves the
mac addr file. For pxe boots the mac addr file is something like:

label linux
  kernel vmlimuz
  append initrd=initrd.img

Should the same work for netboot images? If so, is it:

   kernel image.nbi?

David

> 
> Stefan