[Users] Pxeboot

[Mike Burns]

On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 10:24 -0800, Li, David wrote:
> Hi Mike, 
> 
> I read the oVirt node  Wiki and had an impression it's not ready in 2.3 yet: http://ovirt.org/wiki/Node_Stateless .
> 
> Ok, I saw that tool in the ISO. Let me dig in to how to use it.  
> The real question now is if I can nfs mount the the real rootfs which would also be on the TFTP/DHCP server in the final pxe booting stage.  Is that something you are doing too?

Ok, I think I see where the confusion is now.  We support using pxeboot
to install to a local disk, but not full stateless booting and pulling
the configuration from elsewhere.

It won't really be feasible to so something like this until we have
stateless support worked out, but you're welcome to work with us to get
it working.

Mike

> 
> David
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Mike Burns [mailto:mburns at redhat.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 10:11 AM
> >To: Li, David
> >Cc: users at ovirt.org
> >Subject: Re: [Users] Pxeboot
> >
> >On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 09:53 -0800, Li, David wrote:
> >> Since oVirt node doesn’t support pxeboot in the current release,  does
> >> anyone know if I can use RHEV-H to pxeboot and nfs mout the rootfs?
> >
> >Where does it say that ovirt-node doesn't support pxe boot?  I use PXE in my
> >testing.  I haven't heard of any issues with PXE either.
> >
> >The livecd-iso-to-pxeboot script in livecd-tools will create the initrd and
> >vmlinuz files for you to import into your PXE server.
> >
> >Mike
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >>
> >>
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