[Fedora-xen] PXE boot with Xen

[Curtis Doty]

11:20am Michael DeHaan said:

> Alexander Todorov wrote:
>>  Hello,
>>  Is it possible to create a xen guest than will use PXE boot for initial
>>  installation?
>> 
>
> Someone's done something with hacking a wrapper around pygrub to do something 
> like this, though you might also be interested in "koan" for automated 
> installs.
> This will do basically the same thing and also pull in your preferences for 
> RAM size and disk file size from the profiles -- so you still get fully 
> automatic and repeatable
> network installs.   Koan is paravirt only at the moment though more virt 
> types are next up on my list.
>
> http://cobbler.et.redhat.com
>

For fully virt, I was able to use an etherboot ROM image. Since it just 
uses ISOLINUX to load the ROM, make it hdc:cdrom with boot=d and PXE away!

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