From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 31 03:20:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7294106566B for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:20:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cracauer@koef.zs64.net) Received: from koef.zs64.net (koef.zs64.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f0b:105e::1e6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD8E8FC0A for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from koef.zs64.net (koef.zs64.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f0b:105e::1e6]) by koef.zs64.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p0V3KtsP091991 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:20:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from cracauer@koef.zs64.net) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by koef.zs64.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p0V3Ksec091990 for freebsd-xen@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:20:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cracauer) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:20:54 -0500 From: Martin Cracauer To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110131032054.GA87099@cons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: What's a working BIOS/client-side PXE for Xen/HVM? X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:20:56 -0000 What do you guys use to bring up HVM installes inside Xen with PXE? I am tangling with iPXE but it screws up parsing the filename and root-path options into service/host/filename parts. After fixing that for the NFS-mount case I get http://wavehh.dyndns.org/tmp/debug-xen/nfs.gif which is generally a hard to debug "broken PXE" problem. Using FreeBSD's pxeboot compiled with tftp instead of NFS I get further but root-path is still ignored. Manually placing all things into default places not requiring root-path I get http://wavehh.dyndns.org/tmp/debug-xen/nfs-error.gif "nfs_diskless: no NFS handle" According to the source code this means it doesn't have an NFS handle, specifically boot.nfsroot.nfshandle I have seen a few people post questions like this to questions@ but no answer. I assume this is a chicken-and-egg problem with not having a root-path at start of the kernel, and this message is printed before attempting to mount what I specified as root device in loader.conf. I think it's better for me to look for a working PXE so that I can use a regular NFS pxeboot, hence the question - anyone got anything working? Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/