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

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:48:05AM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 05:03:59PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > 
> > ><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?
> 
> Here is what's output by libvirtd:
> 
> 11:36:57.608: debug : virRun:809 : /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --strict-order --bind-interfaces --pid-file=/var/run/libvirt/network/testbr6762.pid --conf-file=  --listen-address 192.168.132.1 --except-interface lo --dhcp-range 192.168.132.100,192.168.132.199 --dhcp-lease-max=100 --enable-tftp --tftp-root /tmp/tmp.HRG19a7Udi --dhcp-boot tftpboot/pxelinux.0
> 
> Now, this command line matches, WRT the pxe booting elements, our
> pre-0.7 libvirtd test script that worked just fine. And I do see in the
> vm getting an address via dhcp. But i'm still getting the error
> "No filename or root path specified."
> 
> > Also, have you tried using wireshark to see what's going on?
> 
> No, I haven't.

Following up on this: I'm still unable to get the tftp element for this
to work with our autotesting script.

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