[ovirt-users] PXE boot issue

[Michal Skrivanek]

On Apr 9, 2015, at 10:49 , Brandon Merjil <bmerjil at ken-ohki.org> wrote:

> I looked at that as well but ovirt is using gPXE, and I my situation there is no loop. it just stops after trying once.
> Is there an api reference for the run once option. I'd like to have some thing to point to if I start asking the foreman group about this.

I believe Sven is right; RunOnce is not relevant if you speak about reboot within the guest OS. I suppose that's the case.
It is the same QEMU process then and the only difference might be in PXE bootrom, possibly a gPXE bug.

> 
> On Apr 9, 2015 17:44, "Sven Kieske" <s.kieske at mittwald.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/04/15 10:31, Brandon Merjil wrote:
> > But my question is still why does this work with libvirt/kvm and ovirt
> > fails. libvirt/kvm is not doing run once, it is using the defaults provided
> > by the host which is PXE first HD second.
> 
> I guess you are running into the ipxe boot loop problem:
> http://ipxe.org/howto/chainloading#breaking_the_infinite_loop
> 
> this still seems to be a foreman problem to me, because it's the
> dhcp/pxe server who handles what gets booted.
> 
> I know for sure cobbler can handle this, maybe it's a bug in
> how foreman dhcp/pxe selects the local boot device in ovirt vms?
> 
> HTH
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