On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 10:43:09AM -0700, Curtis Doty wrote: > 8:41am Curtis Doty said: > > >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! > > > > Better yet, the boot=n feature that's been in xen-unstable since December > appeared in rawhide a couple weeks ago. :-) It looks much more elegant as > the ROM is now included with Xen, avoids the ISOLINUX wrapper, and has > some timeouts set properly. Yes, for those who didn't notice, we changed our plan for rawhide fairly late in the game & switched from 3.0.4 to 3.1.0 since there were very compelling reasons to jump straight to 3.1.0. This means you do get the new 'boot=n' option for PXE fullyvirt guests. We've not had time to get PXE support into virt-install or virt-manager for F7 GA release, but we'll be releasing an update with it shortly after GA. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
