[Users] Pxeboot

[Li, David]

Mike,

I 'd like to understand what it takes to do this. 
Do we need a special initramfs for oVirt node to help with the stateless pxeboot? Some tools like Dracut and Dracut-network to create such an initramfs? 

David

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Burns [mailto:mburns at redhat.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 10:35 AM
>To: Li, David
>Cc: users at ovirt.org
>Subject: Re: [Users] Pxeboot
>
>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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