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On 24 May 2013 13:55, David Hill <david.hill at ubisoft.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
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>
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>     I was trying to PXE boot a guest for quite some time now and I think
> I’ve found a solution that is kind of hackish but pretty simple.   I’m not
> quite sure it’s good to go in trunk but felt like I’d share it since I’ve
> been messing a while on this.
>
> If anybody have a better solution, I would really like to hear/see/try it …

Don kehn and Devananda are just putting together the patch set for
nova now - Don got the Quantum stuff done first - to support setting
PXE options in DHCP via Quantum.

So, once that lands (which will initially only support nova bare
metal) you could make PXE booting VM's a 'nova boot' option and have
the relevant boot details passed to quantum automatically (on a per-vm
basis). [For nova baremetal, this comes from the virt driver, but even
there we could support command line override, though we'd want to
decide on consistent semantics for the image.].

-Rob

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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
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