[ovirt-users] [Guide] PXE Booting the oVirt Node 4.5 installer

Hi All, I thought I'd post this since there's a few extra steps specific to oVirt Node. Note: This will install in BIOS / MBR / CSM mode, not EFI, so you won't get Secure Boot. Assuming that you already have a DHCP, TFTP, HTTP servers configured to PXE boot. Extract the oVirt Node 4.5 ISO to a folder in your TFTP and HTTP server's working folders - images/pxeboot/vmlinuz, images/pxeboot/initrd.img need to be accessible via TFTP, and the whole ISO (more or less) needs to be accessible via HTTP. I've setup the HTTP and TFTP servers to point at /srv/data/tftp/root, and then extracted the ISO to os/onn45. Copy / edit the interactive-defaults.ks to update the liveimg line to point to the squashfs.img via http: liveimg --url=http://192.168.0.2/os/onn45/ovirt-node-ng-image.squashfs.img You can add things in here to set defaults, if you want: # Keyboard layouts keyboard --xlayouts='au' # System language lang en_AU.UTF-8 # Set starting timezone and NTP server timezone Australia/Perth --isUtc --ntpservers=192.168.0.1 Once that is saved, edit your pxelinux.cfg/default: LABEL onn45 MENU LABEL ^oVirt Node 4.5 KERNEL os/onn45/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz APPEND initrd=os/onn45/images/pxeboot/initrd.img inst.stage2=http://192.168.0.2/os/onn45/ inst.ks=http://192.168.0.2/os/onn45/interactive-defaults-haven.ks Make sure you set the IP addresses and paths are updated to match your setup. Once that's done, you should be able to boot the installer over PXE and install oVirt Node on the machine.