On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:50:12PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
Hey,
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 19:28 +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> It seems that the guest gets one of the available ip provided by
> dhcpd, also it founds dhcpd and tftp server: both are set to
> 192.168.122.1 (the server itself with its virbro default interface).
> No configuration done by me.
> I see /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml with some parameters but
> I don't know if and how I can put here also tftp settings....
Yeah, what we really need here is to have support for setting up TFTP
for libvirt's virtual networks - e.g.
<tftp root="/var/lib/tftpboot/linux-install" />
<bootp file="pxelinux.0" />
which would cause dnsmasq to be run with:
--enable-tftp --tftp-root=/var/lib/libvirt/tftp \
--dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0
we'd also need to open port 69 in our iptables rules.
Please file an RFE for this in
bugzilla.redhat.com/Virtualization ...
maybe even give a shot at cooking up a patch?
I really question what the point in going to setup a PXE server install
on each individual host OS is. The 'virtual network' is local only, so
you might as well just install the guest using a direct kernel+initrd
boot, avoiding all the host OS configuration steps, and extra PXE boot
complexity in libvirt.
Daniel
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