This might be a newbie question, but I thought this might be the most relevant place to ask. >From my understanding of PXE, I know that there must be some negotiation first between the booting client and a DHCP server to obtain network parameters in order for the client to be able to fetch the boot loader and kernel image from the boot server. In other words, and aside from being a "virtual" machine, we're talking here about a "bare metal" machine, so there must be some "pre boot" mechanism for those negotiations to take place, and this is exactly what PXE is all about. When I think about the "Network install" option, I can't figure out how the new VM would be able to fetch the boot images (bootloader and kernel) without the previously mentioned mechanism. I mean to be able to do anything with the newly created machine (including launching the installer at the first place), there must be (1) a bootloader, and (2) a kernel image and initrd. So, what I am interested in, is how those images are get transferred to, and installed in the the newly created VM using the "Network install" option. Thanks for your time.
