[fedora-virt] FYI: iPXE in Fedora 17

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On 04/03/2012 05:14 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> On 03/30/2012 08:26 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> FYI, as of this morning, both Fedora rawhide and Fedora 17 now have QEMU
>> using iPXE.
>>
>>   https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-4242/
>>
>> Please try them out with
>>
>>    yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update qemu
>>
>> and check PXE boot is working sensibly for you, and that gpxe-roms-qemu
>> gets removed automagically & replaced by ipxe-roms-qemu.
> 
> I'm made a scratch build[1] for F16 (as I don't have an F17 host yet), and about to test
> w/ the below cmd line:
> 
> ################
> virt-install --connect=qemu:///system \
>   --network=bridge:br0\
>   --pxe \
>   --name f16tbox \
>   --disk path=/export/vmimgs/f16tbox1.img,size=10 \
>   --ram 2048 \
>   --vcpus=2 \
>   --check-cpu \
>   --hvm \
>   --os-variant fedora16
> ################
> (Also, w/ my firewall turned off (iptables seems to block tftp..)
> 
> [1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3962520
> 
> Is this valid?

(replying to myself)

I think, I need to scratch build 'qemu-1.0-11.fc17.src.rpm' as well for F16 -- as this
seems to have your changelog entry 'Switch to iPXE for netboot ROMs)

Just issued a F16 scratch build for 'qemu' too --
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3962553


> 
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Daniel
> 
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