[fedora-virt] gPXE vs iPXE in Fedora and QEMU/KVM usage

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 10:22 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Upstream QEMU/KVM have replaced gPXE with iPXE, AFAICT, because the gPXE
> community is dead[1], while iPXE is very active & responsive to patches,
> etc. I'd like QEMU/KVM in Fedora to ship using iPXE by default so that
> we match what the upstream community ships with.
> 
> As I see it there are two obvious options
> 
>  - Retire gPXE completely and add iPXE for use by everybody
>  - Keep gPXE and add iPXE to be used by QEMU/KVM only
> 
> I was wondering if people had any thoughts on the matter ?
> 
> If we're quick there's still time todo this for Fedora 17, since we have
> not had any major Virt related test days yet - the OpenStack test day
> is March 8th (1+1/2 weeks away).
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPXE
> 
>      "gPXE development ceased in summer 2010, and several projects are
>        migrating or considering migrating to iPXE as a result."

That was my plan, but I was hoping they would make some sort of release
rather than trying to decide when the git tree might be stable.  Nothing
has been tagged, and no tarballs have been released sine iPXE was
created.  There is no reason to keep gPXE around once we get iPXE in.

Justin