[et-mgmt-tools] kvm pxe boot again

Michael DeHaan mdehaan at redhat.com
Mon Jun 23 14:47:14 UTC 2008


Farkas Levente wrote:
> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>> Farkas Levente wrote:
>>> hi,
>>> i try again pxe boot for a guest on out kvm server. the setup:
>>
>> A random aside...
>>
>> If this is for an OS that would be reasonable to integrate with 
>> Cobbler (something Unixy) we could add it there and have more 
>> deployment solutions for when PXE isn't possible -- for instance when 
>> someone has no control over DHCP.  If it's for Linux, you can already 
>> do that so you wouldn't need PXE in that case (if you were willing to 
>> use Cobbler).
>>
>> Of course if this is about Windows we can't do that now just yet, but 
>> it's on my todo-list to see how to better make all of that work.  
>> That's what the image management support is all about (probable 
>> integration with udpcast & the virt-image tools, etc)
>
> imho it's nothing to do with any kind of os or cobbler. as i wrote 
> it's in virt-manager's at the booting stage so the problem in kvm, 
> qemu or virt-manager.
>
Yes, this was me just farming for patches on a semi-related topic -- 
namely getting more Unixy support in there.








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