RE: [PATCH] support for gPXE and esxi5
Sorry, My mistake,
PXE/ESXi 5 - OK
gPXE/ESXi 5 - Not OK
gPXE/ESXi 5/ESXi 5 - OK
It is an Intel card, Desktop Pro 1G.
I will start looking at some variations and try them out. There may be some different
gPXE builds I can do. Maybe there is some UNDI variation.
Also an interesting comment from this blog
http://blog.markusbordihn.de/2009/04/gpxe-and-localboot.html
"Because pxelinux will unload from the memory before it load the chain.c32 it works
without any problems and also the localboot has the full avalible memory"
I am wondering if gPXE somehow operates within it's own memory restricted
environment.
Thanks
John
-----Original Message-----
From: cobbler-bounces(a)lists.fedorahosted.org
[mailto:cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of James Cammarata
Sent: 01 December 2011 13:10
To: cobbler mailing list
Subject: Re: [PATCH] support for gPXE and esxi5
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:47 AM, John Paget Bourke <john.bourke(a)mobileinternet.com>
wrote:
Hi,
If I manually install ESXi on my hardware and then create an ESXi VM inside (ESXi on
ESXi), then try build from Cobbler with gPXE, it works !!!
So gPXE/ESXi 5 - OK
So gPXE/ESXi 5 - Not OK
So gPXE/ESXi 5/ESXi 5 - OK
So it must be some kind of hardware issue, some strange interaction between gPXE and ESXi
on that hardware ?
Maybe I need to put this to the gPXE people ?
Is it an Intel NIC? I vaguely remember seeing a post somewhere about Intel cards
allocating a huge amount of buffers, causing issues when booting on a kvm guest, however I
can't seem to find it now.
Also, I'm not 100% clear on which situations are working for you and which ones
aren't - #1 and #2 seem to be the same.
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