Hi, osol-0906 (b111b), ISC DHCP 4.0.0 I''m trying to install a client over PXE as: root@mk-xvm-1:~# virt-install --hvm --name node-6 --ram 1024 --os-type=solaris --network bridge=vmswitch0 -f /xvm/guests/node-6/root -s 5 --pxe In the VNC console I can see: [...] [rtl8139] - ioaddr 0XC200, irq 5, addr 00:16:3E:22:D8:C2 100Mbps half-duplex Searching for server (DHCP)....No IP address .No IP address .No IP address and it is stuck here. dhcp server is working fine for already installed guests (from iso) and when started with -d I get: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:16:3e:22:d8:c2 via dom0 DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.16 to 00:16:3e:22:d8:c2 via dom0 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:16:3e:22:d8:c2 via dom0 DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.16 to 00:16:3e:22:d8:c2 via dom0 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:16:3e:22:d8:c2 via dom0 DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.16 to 00:16:3e:22:d8:c2 via dom0 DHCPDISCOVER from 00:16:3e:22:d8:c2 via dom0 snoop also confirms that requests and responds are being sent: OLD-BROADCAST -> BROADCAST DHCP/BOOTP DHCPDISCOVER 192.168.1.254 -> 192.168.1.16 DHCP/BOOTP DHCPOFFER OLD-BROADCAST -> BROADCAST DHCP/BOOTP DHCPDISCOVER 192.168.1.254 -> 192.168.1.16 DHCP/BOOTP DHCPOFFER The network topologu is that there is a etherstub created called vmswitch0 then there is a vnic called dom0 configured in a global zone with ip 192.168.1.254 and dhcp server is listening on dom0 vnic. The guests OSes are then connected to vmswitch0 via etherbridge (so vnic is autmaticlly created). As I wrote above once client is installed from ISO image and configured to use the dhcp server it works perfectly fine so it seems like there is some issue with Xen''s PXE here. is it a known bug? btw: what rtl is reporting half-duplex? Why not a full-duplex? -- Robert Milkowski http://milek.blogspot.com -- This message posted from opensolaris.org