From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: gpxe <gpxe@etherboot.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] gPXE fw_cfg file interface support
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:06:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fbd9d3991001290206j7826c5cfg51f9fc6d6479cf4c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B601224.2030803@redhat.com>
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Note that this patch only adds the fw_cfg file interface mechanism, it
>> does not
>> automatically probe for a special file when gPXE starts. You will
>> need to manually
>> "chain fw_cfg:genroms/file".
>
> That should be changed too IMHO. qemu needs some kind of new switch, so you
> can place the firmware file into some other virtual directory where gpxe
> could look by default, i.e. something like "fw_cfg:gpxe/default". Then you
> can easily have qemu guests netboot from somewhere without any local
> pxe/tftp setup, like this:
>
> qemu -fw-file gpxe/default=bko.gpxe
>
> with bko.gpxe being:
>
> #!gpxe
> dhcp net0
> set 209:string pxelinux.cfg/default
> set 210:string http://boot.kernel.org/bko/
> chain http://boot.kernel.org/bko/pxelinux.0
That sounds good. I will send out a new patch which fetches
fw_cfg:gpxe/default on startup.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-29 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-27 9:42 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] gPXE fw_cfg file interface support Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-01-27 10:15 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-01-29 10:06 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2010-02-08 2:23 ` [gPXE] " Shao Miller
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