[syslinux] Virtualization env to test/demo UEFI PXE boot....

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Fri May 23 14:30:45 PDT 2014


On May 23, 2014 5:27 PM, "Gene Cumm" <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On May 23, 2014 4:45 PM, "Spike White" <spikewhitetx at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > (This may be a Gene question, see
> > http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Development/Testing).
> >
> > I'd like to find a virtualization env to test and demo the new
UEFI-based
> > PXE boot in pxelinux.
> >
> > I've tried Virtualbox (BIOS-based PXE boot only).  And I've tried VMWare
> > workstation 20 (ditto).
>
> VMware Workstation 10 works for me.  Fresh VM, don't power on, edit the
.VMX and add
>
>     firmware="efi"
>
> and now it'll be uEFI.  Changing am existing VM may work but may also
have consequences.
>
> > I know VMWare ESXi will now do UEFI PXE boot, I've seen it as work.  But
> > for home or lab, that's cost prohibitive.
>
> ESXi is available under a cost-free license but provides a GUI option for
uEFI.
>
> > Is there a open source virtualization technology that does this?
>
> I think you're really looking for cost-free or VMware Workstation.

If you didn't guess, I found this firmware trick months ago via Google and
run uEFI VMs in Workstation, ESXi and ESXi nested inside Workstation.

--Gene


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