On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:47 AM, John Paget Bourke john.bourke@mobileinternet.com wrote:
Hi,
If I manually install ESXi on my hardware and then create an ESXi VM inside (ESXi on ESXi), then try build from Cobbler with gPXE, it works !!!
So gPXE/ESXi 5 - OK So gPXE/ESXi 5 - Not OK So gPXE/ESXi 5/ESXi 5 - OK
So it must be some kind of hardware issue, some strange interaction between gPXE and ESXi on that hardware ?
Maybe I need to put this to the gPXE people ?
Is it an Intel NIC? I vaguely remember seeing a post somewhere about Intel cards allocating a huge amount of buffers, causing issues when booting on a kvm guest, however I can't seem to find it now.
Also, I'm not 100% clear on which situations are working for you and which ones aren't - #1 and #2 seem to be the same.