[syslinux] gpxelinux

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 09/13/2009 10:19 PM, Ohad Levy wrote:
> 
> On 9/14/09, *H. Peter Anvin* <hpa at zytor.com <mailto:hpa at zytor.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Testing on virtual hardware is cantankerous, since they generally have
>     even worse BIOSes than real hardware.  However, some of these problems
>     are probably independent on this.  Collecting Wireshark traces are often
>     useful in getting debugging network boot failures.
> 
> In my opinion virtual hardware should be considered the same as physical
> hardware, when in a time like these every decent datacenter has a
> mixture of them all.
> 

There is a major difference, though, in how they can be upgraded.  The
point, though, was that the network booting firmware for many VMs have
serious bugs.

> I would like to have a unified way of booting clients, hopefully that
> should include virtual hosts as well.
> 
> in any case, about the trace, I'll provide some more info when I'm next
> to my lab setup, nevertheless, do you have any idea about how to solve
> the local boot issues (Where it works with pxelinux but doesn't with
> gpxelinux.0)?

Certainly not with current data.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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