[nova] Spawning instance that will do PXE booting

Cedric Lemarchand yipikai7 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 8 19:52:13 UTC 2021


Thanks for the heads up.

Pointer is about ovn, I didnt find anything regarding ovs.

Did the Neutron API support these options both for ovn and ovs ?

On Wed, Dec 8, 2021, 17:12 Christian Rohmann <christian.rohmann at inovex.de>
wrote:

> On 03/12/2021 21:01, Cedric Lemarchand wrote:
> > We faced the same use case, and we end up doing something like this:
> >
> > - disable security on the network provider (or on the instance port
> > where pxe boot is needed)
> > - deploy or rescue the intance with an ipxe image
> >
>
> As for DHCP, you can very much use the OpenStack DHCP and just set the
> options like next-server / server-ip-address
>
>   *
>
> https://docs.openstack.org/api-ref/network/v2/?expanded=update-port-detail#extra-dhcp-option-extra-dhcp-opt-extension
>   * https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/latest/ovn/dhcp_opts.html
>
>
> and this IP then points to your VM with the TFTP and other PXE / iPXE
> tooling running.
>
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Christian
>
>
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