[libvirt] Two issues regarding TFTP support in virtual networks...

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Wed Jan 13 16:03:59 UTC 2010


> <network>
> <name>testbr31018</name>
> <forward mode='nat' />
> <bridge name='testbr31018' stp='on' forwardDelay='0' />
> <ip address='192.168.163.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'>
> <tftp root='/tmp/tmp.6LUTF06Gkm/tftpboot' />
> <dhcp>
> <bootp file='pxelinux.0' />
> <range start='192.168.163.100' end='192.168.163.199' />
> </dhcp>
> </ip>
> </network>
>
> Are there any relative pathing values that should be used by the tftp
> and bootp tags? Should the tftp->root attribute point to the work
> directory and then bootp->file refer to tftpboot/pxelinux.0?

No, the above seems fine (I should have pointed you to 
tests/networkxml2xmlin/netboot-network.xml before).  Can you post the 
generated dnsmasq command line?

Also, have you tried using wireshark to see what's going on?

Paolo




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