I see a single post by a Stephen Childs about a way to pxe-boot paravirtualized xen guests [1] but there is no follow up. I do see a link to the product in question [2] the funny thing is that I don''t see any discussion (or mention of rolling this into the main xen distro) - speaking as someone who manages many servers, virtual and non-virtual, the more I can get to run off my existing pxeboot infrastructure, the better off I am. I have seen discussions about doing this with HVM domains, but not with paravirtualized domains. am I missing something? [1]http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-02/msg00120.html [2]https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Stephen.Childs/pypxeboot/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Javier Guerra Giraldez
2007-Oct-24 00:32 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] pypxeboot (a way to pxeboot pv guests)
On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Luke S. Crawford wrote:> I have seen discussions about doing this with HVM domains, but not with > paravirtualized domains. am I missing something?well, since PV domains have the kernel and initrd loaded by Dom0, most of the hard parts of PXE are already done, don''t you think? if the disk image resides on some kind of network (NFS, SAN, iSCSI, FC, etc), what''s left for PXE to do? more interesting is to boot Xen itself (and Dom0) via PXE... so the CPU box doesn''t need any storage at all. -- Javier _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users