Re: [libvirt-users] vm pxe fail

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On 09/04/2012 02:31 PM, Alex Jia wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Avi Kivity" <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Alex Jia" <ajia@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Andrew Holway" <a.holway@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, September 3, 2012 9:27:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] vm pxe fail
> 
> On 08/31/2012 05:37 PM, Alex Jia wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>> Great, BTW, in fact, you may pxe boot via VF of Intel82576, however, Intel82576 SR-IOV network adapters 
>> don't provide a ROM BIOS for the cards virtual functions (VF), but an image of such a ROM is available, 
>> and with this ROM visible to the guest, it can PXE boot.
>> 
>> In libvirt's xml, you need to configure guest XML like this:
>> 
>>           <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>
>>             <source>
>>               <address bus='XX' slot='XX' function='XX'/>
>>             </source>         
>>             <boot order='1'/>         
>>            <rom bar='on' file='/xxxx/ipxe-808610ca.rom'/>
>>           </hostdev>
>> 
>> You need to build a ipxe-808610ca.rom by yourself, if you're interested in this,
>> please refer to http://ipxe.org/.
> 
> Is there a way to automate this?  Perhaps a database matching PCI IDs
> and ipxe .roms, which qemu could consult?
> 
>    Hi Avi,
>    Good question, I haven't try this via qemu yet, from libvirt POV, basically, we may filter and parse 'lspci'
>    or 'virsh nodedev-list --tree' output to get a bus, slot and function number then add them into above guest
>    XML, WRT above 'ipxe-808610ca.rom' file, we may directly 'git clone git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git' then compile
>    it and generate a .rom file such as 82576.rom or use a vendor+product id as a rom name if you like.

We could have qemu autoload /usr/share/qemu/roms/vendor-device.rom, and
symlink /usr/share/qemu/roms to /usr/share/ipxe/roms or something.

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