pxelinux 2.04 dumps vmmon, was Re: [syslinux] load pxelinux w/o PXE BIOS?

[Michael Blandford]

hm at seneca.muc.de wrote:

>Anyway I tried pxelinux-2.03 now instead of 2.04 which produces the crash.
>2.03 works slooooooow within a VM but it works. It actually takes more
>than 5 minutes to TFTP a 900KB kernel and a 5MB initrd. Which makes it
>like 20-25 KB/s.
>
>Does anybody have an idea what _is_ so slow here? 
>
>- Is it pxelinux' TFTP client within a VM? 
>  
>
I am not sure of the cause.  However, using the rfbg floppy on a real 
box is very fast.  It is definitely a vmware/pxelinux related issue.

I would be happy to help diagnose this problem is someone has some 
insight as to what to try.

>To recapitulate: as for the crash, this is VMware WS 4.00-4460 w/
>pxelinux 2.04. The warning "You do not have VMware tools installed"
>isn't very meaningful here because you install them in a guest OS as
>soon as it is installed, not before.
>  
>
Does the vmware log give you any more insight/data?

Michael