Re: [Xen-API] pypxeboot (or similar) under XCP 1.6 - xenpvnetboot

[Joseph Hom <jhom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you looked into eliloader?

This is in current XenServer systems and works about the same way you are 
looking for xenpvnetboot to work.

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From: xen-api-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-api-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Alexandre Kouznetsov
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 1:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [Xen-API] pypxeboot (or similar) under XCP 1.6 - xenpvnetboot

Hello.

By causality I found a reference to "xenpvnetboot", which seems to solve my 
problem and is supported since a year ago, in Xen 4.2.

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xenpvnetboot_:_A_network_bootloader_for_Xen_PV_guest

It's mentioned on http://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/8240913
(russian), but not on
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/09/17/xen-4-2-0-released/ .

Debian package search engiene says it's included in xen-utils-4.2 under Sid:
http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=sid&arch=any&searchon=contents&keywords=Xenpvnetboot

By chance, does it works somehow under XCP or XenServer? I found no reference 
documentation yet.

Greetings

El 04/07/13 14:02, Alexandre Kouznetsov escribió:
> Hello.
>
> Is there a reasonable clean way to get a PV domain to boot using 
> existing PXE infrastructure instead of a regular VBD? Would be great 
> to have it working "off the shelf", but if not, after a minimally 
> invasive procedure.
>
> All the reference I have found about the subject suggests using 
> pypxegrub, but only the usage with a regular Xen is described.
>
> "xe vm-param-list" tells me about "PV-bootloader", usually set to 
> "pygrub" on PV guests. Is it a keyword, or the actual name of 
> executable file to run and may be anything within PATH? In that case, 
> maybe I can manually install pypxeboot to my XCP or XenServer host and 
> archive my goal.
>
> Have anybody done that already?
> Is there a known cleaner way?
>
> Thank you.
>


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