Re: [fedora-virt] gPXE and localboot

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

Hi Ewan,

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 19:52 +0100, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> According to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtgPXE the switch
> to gPXE should make PXE 'localboot' (which etherboot didn't support)
> start working. I've tried setting up a network booting VM on a host
> running F11 + virt-preview and while it uses gPXE, loading a pxelinux
> configuration that tries to do localboot doesn't work - gPXE loops and
> does DHCP again[1]. The same config does work on real hardware, so am I
> missing a detail somewhere, do I need a full F12 install, or is this not
> supposed to be working yet?

Thanks for the report, I think it's probably just a bug. You should
follow up on:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/472236

Thanks,
Mark.