Neat! Have you seen any of the work around nova baremetal (which is transitioning to be called ironic?) Related to that is a set of "virtual power drivers" which allow for treating virtual machines like real machines - so that you can use nova to pxe boot a kvm or a virtualbox or a vmware instance.
I know it's not exactly the same thing, but I don't know what you're trying to accomplish. Perhaps what you want is similar enough to work together? Monty On 05/10/2013 12:55 PM, David Hill wrote: > Hi guys, > > > > 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 … > > > > Here is how I did it: > > > > First, patch the libvirt/driver.py file: > > --- /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py.orig > 2013-05-10 16:25:17.787862177 +0000 > > +++ /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py > 2013-05-10 16:26:39.442022870 +0000 > > @@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ > > LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__) > > > > libvirt_opts = [ > > + cfg.StrOpt('default_guest_boot_dev', > > + default='hd', > > + help='Sets the default guest boot device'), > > cfg.StrOpt('rescue_image_id', > > default=None, > > help='Rescue ami image'), > > @@ -1792,7 +1795,7 @@ > > instance['name'], > > "ramdisk") > > else: > > - guest.os_boot_dev = "hd" > > + guest.os_boot_dev = FLAGS.default_guest_boot_dev > > > > if FLAGS.libvirt_type != "lxc" and FLAGS.libvirt_type != "uml": > > guest.acpi = True > > > > > > And add to nova.conf: > > default_guest_boot_dev=network > > > > And finally add to /etc/dnsmasq.conf > > dhcp-boot=boot\x86\pxelinux.com,host_name,host_ip > > dhcp-no-override > > > > And restart dnsmasq.conf > > > > In my actual setup, the guest will PXE boot, show the menu 60 seconds > and then boot from hard disk after the 60 seconds timeout. > > > > > > Thank you very much, > > > > Dave > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp