[libvirt] [PATCH] network: add 'bootp' and 'tftp' config
Chris Lalancette
clalance at redhat.com
Wed Sep 23 07:53:52 UTC 2009
Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Currently, libvirtd will start a dnsmasq process for the virtual
> network, but (aside from killing the dnsmasq process and replacing it),
> there's no way to define tftp boot options.
>
> This change introduces the appropriate tags to the dhcp configuration:
>
> <network>
> <name>default</name>
> <bridge name="virbr%d" />
> <forward/>
> <ip address="192.168.122.1" netmask="255.255.255.0">
> <tftp root="/var/lib/tftproot" />
> <dhcp>
> <range start="192.168.122.2" end="192.168.122.254" />
> <bootp file="pxeboot.img"/>
> </dhcp>
> </ip>
> </network>
>
> When the attributes are present, these are passed to the
> arguments to dnsmasq:
>
> dnsmasq [...] --enable-tftp --tftp-root /srv/tftp --dhcp-boot pxeboot.img
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> from <tftp /> from <bootp />
>
> At present, only local tftp servers are supported (ie, dnsmasq runs as
> the tftp server), but we could improve this in future by adding a
> server= attribute.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
Since everyone seems to be happy with this now, I've pushed it.
Thanks,
--
Chris Lalancette
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